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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 42).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ford see in church and wonder about with her grandmother?
(a) A picture of Mary.
(b) A picture of Joseph.
(c) A cross.
(d) People speaking in tongues.

2. What does Ford's mother tell her in Part I?
(a) Her father is getting out of prison.
(b) Her grandmother is sick.
(c) Her mother is having a baby.
(d) Her mother is sick.

3. What does Ford find in her grandmother's bedroom right before Christmas one year?
(a) Toys.
(b) Drugs.
(c) A Christmas tree.
(d) Food.

4. In Chapter 6, what does Ford realize that forgetting her own pain in the service of is sometimes worth it for?
(a) Not being as poor as the family could be.
(b) Being able to stay in school.
(c) Not giving away secrets to the rest of the family.
(d) Allowing her mother to make jokes at her expense.

5. What does Ford tell her boyfriend about her feelings about the news her mother delivers to her in Chapter 1?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is happy.
(c) She does not know how she feels.
(d) She is suspicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ford often play with at her grandmother's house?

2. What does Ford's grandmother tell her about praying?

3. What does Ford's grandmother tell her about her father in Chapter 4?

4. What do Ford and her brother do in Chapter 6 that angers their mother?

5. How does Grandma Billie wear her hair?

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