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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. What did James' father die of?
(a) Lung cancer
(b) Polio
(c) Measles
(d) Brain disease
2. What did the blacks come into the store to purchase in the Thirties?
(a) BC powder
(b) Paracetemol
(c) Gun powder
(d) Guns
3. What kind of job did Ruth's father have when he first arrived in America?
(a) Store owner
(b) Traveling preacher
(c) Drug dealer
(d) Pimp
4. What does Ruth's father keep behind the counter in his store?
(a) Sweets
(b) A baseball bat
(c) A gun
(d) A tomahawk
5. Who does Ruth steal money from?
(a) Her father
(b) Her brother
(c) Her mother
(d) Frances
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did James' mother spend most of her adult life?
2. What material is the boy's father's clothes made from?
3. What kind of animal does Sam have to feed in the mornings?
4. What do the children eat at Daddy's cousin's house?
5. What does Ruth drink tea from?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Ruth and her family live in America when they first arrived?
2. Why did James think his mother was strange?
3. What is the state of black people's lives in the 1930s?
4. How do things begin to go downhill for James when Hunter Jordan dies?
5. How does Ruth respond when James asks what color God is?
6. How does Sam's leaving home affect Ruth?
7. How does the 1960s black power affect James in Chapter 3?
8. How does Ruth's friend, Frances, support her?
9. How does Betsy react to Ruth's pregnancy?
10. Why is music important to James?
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