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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Song (7) and X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Black students does Ailey report attend her second high school?
(a) 27.
(b) 13.
(c) 20.
(d) 6.

2. At which of the following schools does Coco study?
(a) Fordham.
(b) Brown.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Johns Hopkins.

3. Whom of the following succeeds Tut in Samuel’s kitchen?
(a) Jeanie.
(b) Mamie.
(c) Bennie.
(d) Venie.

4. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “Back when her name had been ‘Beauty,’ Aggie’s grandmother had told her men were stronger than women.”
(b) “Twenty years had passed, and a new century had begun.”
(c) “We are the earth, the land.”
(d) “We know of those taken from the place called Africa.”

5. What is the name of the founder of the university where Ailey pursues graduate study?
(a) Charles Edge.
(b) William James.
(c) Edward Sharpe.
(d) Henry Dulle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom of the following kills Dante?

2. Who of the following does Dante point out as an example to Lydia?

3. Which of the following is emphatically off of the menu at the restaurant Velma runs?

4. In what month does Belle bring Lydia back from Georgia?

5. In what year is it arranged that Ailey will transfer high schools?

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