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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quicksand - Chapters Six and Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Helga feels the school's intention is to
(a) Teach the children arts and crafts.
(b) Pave the way for college students.
(c) Preserve the Negro culture.
(d) Turn black children into white children.

2. Besides her uncle, what connection does Helga have in Chicago?
(a) She worked in the factories there.
(b) Her grandmother is there.
(c) She was born there.
(d) She remembers going there as a child.

3. Knowing she is without support, Helga's desperation turns to
(a) Revolutionary thoughts.
(b) Anger toward all white people.
(c) Determination to make it on her own.
(d) Plotting and scheming for greater status.

4. Helga's false pride masks her
(a) Insecurity and pain.
(b) Cruel nature.
(c) Coldness.
(d) Lack of taste.

5. Helga considers Negro society to be
(a) As complex as white.
(b) Beneath her social status.
(c) Simple and straightforward.
(d) Much easier to live with than white.

Short Answer Questions

1. Helga found her job with the help of

2. Helga's hidden feeling about her lack of family is

3. Helga feels that at Naxos she is

4. In her discomfort about not fitting in, Helga realizes

5. James Vayle, to whom Helga is engaged,

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