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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of houses do the blacks in Suffolk live in?
(a) Apartments
(b) Mansions
(c) Shacks
(d) Mud huts

2. What do the muggers take from Ruth?
(a) Her purse
(b) Her blouse
(c) Her life
(d) Her groceries

3. What type of customers does Ruth's father overcharge?
(a) Jews
(b) Politicians
(c) Blacks
(d) Upperclass whites

4. Why can Ruth not eat Frances' mother's food?
(a) It is soul food
(b) It is cheap
(c) It is not kosher
(d) It smells bad

5. What color packets does the BC powder come in?
(a) Blue and white
(b) Yellow
(c) Red and green
(d) Purple

6. What did James' father die of?
(a) Lung cancer
(b) Polio
(c) Brain disease
(d) Measles

7. What does Ruth's father call the school she attends?
(a) A gentile school
(b) A special school
(c) An abnormal school
(d) A Jewish school

8. Who does Ruth's father think is trying to steal from him?
(a) Orphans
(b) Blacks
(c) Jews
(d) School children

9. What kind of water animal does Ruth say Frances' family ate?
(a) Sharks
(b) Turtles
(c) Fish
(d) Whales

10. Who finds Ruth's bracelet?
(a) Frances
(b) Her father
(c) Her mother
(d) Her brother

11. Who does James interview in his book?
(a) Himself
(b) His sister
(c) His mother
(d) His brother

12. What does James say he and his siblings are confused by?
(a) Their color
(b) Who their father is
(c) The upperclasses
(d) Their nationality

13. What part of Virginia did Ruth and her family move to?
(a) Charlottesville
(b) Suffolk
(c) Durham
(d) Birmingham

14. What group is the boy's father part of?
(a) Black Panthers
(b) COCP
(c) Communist party
(d) Nation of Islam

15. What does Ruth say she was starved of?
(a) Attention
(b) Love
(c) Food
(d) Education

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children eat at Daddy's cousin's house?

2. What material is the boy's father's clothes made from?

3. What did the blacks come into the store to purchase in the Thirties?

4. Where does Ruth's Aunt Betsy work?

5. What does James say the preacher at church dots his sermons with?

(see the answer keys)

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