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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quicksand, Chapters Eighteen and Nineteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Helga's mother lift herself out of her bad situation?
(a) She proclaimed her Danish heritage.
(b) She married a white man.
(c) She moved to Denmark.
(d) She stopped having children.

2. What effect did Uncle Peter's check have on Helga?
(a) She realizes she has felt yoked to her race.
(b) She feels guilty or causing Peter such trouble.
(c) She begins to miss her mother.
(d) She remembers that she likes being white.

3. What disturbs Helga about her conversation with Dr. Anderson?
(a) She feels she told half-truths.
(b) She is ashamed of herself for resigning.
(c) She feels she confided too much to him.
(d) She wanted to stay.

4. Peter's wife told Helga her presence was not
(a) Acceptable.
(b) Convenient.
(c) Surprising.
(d) Appropriate.

5. Helga considers that perhaps her feelings for Dr. Anderson mean that
(a) She wishes he would leave New York.
(b) She is in love with him.
(c) She longs for Naxos.
(d) She resents him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does her uncle's wife reject Helga?

2. Knowing she is without support, Helga's desperation turns to

3. It occurs to Helga that perhaps her new uncle

4. Where does Helga encounter Robert Anderson again?

5. Anne's feelings about racism cause her to

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