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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mama do with her money?
(a) She puts it in her pocket.
(b) She stirs it around with her finger.
(c) She drops it.
(d) She gives it to James.

2. How many people are in the café that Mama and James stop at?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

3. In the opening of Chapter 10, what building does James see a clock on?
(a) The post office.
(b) The courthouse.
(c) The general store.
(d) The office.

4. What do James and Mama do after seeing what time it is on the clock that James sees in Chapter 10?
(a) They decide to window shop.
(b) They go eat.
(c) They go stand beside a building.
(d) They sit down on the steps.

5. The nurse claims that the dentist will not see any more patients until what time?
(a) Three o'clock.
(b) One o'clock.
(c) Noon.
(d) Two o'clock.

6. At the beginning of Chapter 11, James says he knows they are going somewhere. Where are they going?
(a) To the store again.
(b) To the place where the colored people eat.
(c) To the bus station.
(d) Home.

7. What is the young black man waiting in the dentist's office wearing?
(a) A suit.
(b) A gentleman's hat.
(c) A plaid shirt.
(d) A furry coat.

8. Who says, "so now we the ignorant" after they were accused of believing in God because a man told them to believe in God?
(a) The nurse.
(b) James.
(c) The preacher.
(d) The boy.

9. Who comes out of the dentist office with John Lee?
(a) His mother.
(b) The nurse.
(c) The dentist.
(d) Nobody.

10. What does the boy with the book blame for the fact that he doesn't believe in God?
(a) That books are hard to read.
(b) That the wait for the dentist is too long.
(c) That everything is evil in the world.
(d) That he was born too late.

11. Who says, "nurse, I have to go back in the field this evening" after finding out that the dentist is not taking anymore patients until after lunch?
(a) Mama.
(b) The preacher.
(c) The boy with the book.
(d) The man smoking a pipe.

12. While James is walking, he thinks about Ty playing with Monsieur Bayonne's guitar; when Ty played with Monsieur Bayonne's guitar what happened?
(a) Ty broke one of the strings.
(b) Ty learned a new song.
(c) Ty broke the guitar.
(d) Ty sang and played a made up song.

13. Who puts something in their mouth and keeps turning and turning it while they wait at the dentist's office?
(a) Mama.
(b) The preacher.
(c) James.
(d) The boy.

14. What does James hear as he and Mama are walking from the dentist's office for the second time?
(a) The wind in his ears.
(b) Children playing.
(c) A baby crying.
(d) A bell.

15. What color does the young black man with the book claim the wind is?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Pink.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9 how many men are standing around the heater in the store?

2. Who enters the waiting room at the beginning of Chapter 9?

3. What does Mama have to eat at the cafe?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 11, James states that he can't stand being what?

5. While James and his Mama are walking, James said he'd be happy if it was what all the time?

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