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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the prostitutes with Mr. Henry in Part III is described as “the one church women never allowed their eyes to rest on”?
(a) China.
(b) Miss Bertha.
(c) Poland.
(d) Maginot Line.

2. On what street had Mr. Henry been living before taking a room from the MacTeer family?
(a) Second Street.
(b) Thirteenth Street.
(c) Eighth Street.
(d) Fifth Street.

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

4. What do the narrator and her sister receive at the start of the school year in Part II?
(a) Plaid skirts and vitamins.
(b) Black shoes and books.
(c) White shirts and pencils.
(d) Brown stockings and cod liver oil.

5. What movie star does Claudia say “smiled down at us” from the Dreamland Theater in Part III?
(a) June Harver.
(b) Ethel Merman.
(c) Betty Grable.
(d) Alice Faye.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Part II, “The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was” what?

2. The narrator says in Part II, “So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want” what?

3. Which of the prostitutes in town does Mrs. MacTeer say is a “ruined” woman?

4. What game did Geraldine’s son “long to play with the black boys,” according to the narrator in Part III?

5. How old is Sammy when he lives by the pizza parlor in the narrator’s description from Part II?

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