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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Cathy's Candy Store, who makes racist comments in response to another character's comment about segregated schools?
(a) Stella.
(b) Paulette.
(c) Kenneth.
(d) Thelma.

2. What is the name of the school attended by all of the black children in Bumblebee?
(a) Seascape.
(b) Meadowland.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Riverside.

3. Which character does Stella identify as having attended the Klan rally?
(a) Mr. Smith.
(b) Dr. Packard.
(c) Bill.
(d) Mr. Odom.

4. When the family goes out to alert the neighborhood about the Klan's resurgence, who is assigned the right side of the street?
(a) Jojo and Stella.
(b) Dusty.
(c) Papa.
(d) Mama.

5. When the family goes out to alert the neighborhood about the Klan's resurgence, who is assigned the left side of the street?
(a) Jojo.
(b) Stella.
(c) Mama.
(d) Papa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animal belongs to Spoon Man?

2. At what location is the Christmas pageant always held in Stella's community?

3. What type of material was used to create the Mills' kitchen table?

4. What food does Mama offer to Spoon Man on the morning of his departure?

5. The kitchen table in the Mills' home had been handmade by whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pastor Patton invoke the idea of technology within his sermon?

2. What is unique about the Spencer family?

3. What does Mama mean when she calls Stella "a gemstone hiding inside a rock" (100)?

4. What philosophy are the black people in Bumblebee said to hold because "it had always been" (5) so?

5. To what location is Stella sent during the meeting that takes place in the Mills' home and why?

6. What plan does Pastor Patton tell the congregation he will undertake the following morning?

7. What aspect of the Klan's reemergence most alarms Papa and why?

8. What sight alerts Stella to the identity of the one of the Klansmen at the rally?

9. What aspect of transformation does Stella observe and write about within her "Trees" essay?

10. Why are Jojo and Stella outside in the middle of the night in the novel's opening scene?

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