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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as a “competent midwife and decisive diagnostician” during Aunt Jimmy’s illness in Part IV?
(a) Maginot Line.
(b) Mrs. Dunion.
(c) M'Dear.
(d) Miss Forrester.

2. Who had at one time been the idols of Geraldine’s son, according to the narrator in Part III?
(a) Mr. Breelove.
(b) Bay Boy and P.L.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. MacTeer.
(d) Soaphead Church.

3. Of what dancer does Claudia say in Part II “was my friend, my uncle, my daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me”?
(a) Chuck E. White.
(b) Louis Armstrong.
(c) Bojangles.
(d) Fred Astaire.

4. Where did Pauline Williams’s family move after World War I for the mines and millwork?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Ohio.

5. The sound of what town’s name “opens the windows of a room like the first four notes of a hymn,” according to Claudia in Part III?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Elyria.
(d) Meridian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the gym teacher that Maureen describes as bow-legged in Part III?

2. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?

3. What does Claudia recall doing with her baby dolls as a child in Part II?

4. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they acquire skills in order to get rid of “the funkiness” of what?

5. Claudia says of the girls who come from places like Mobile and Aiken that they “hold their behind in for fear of a sway too” what, in Part III?

(see the answer key)

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