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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does B say about children in act 1, part 1?
(a) That they should be taught that death is a blessing.
(b) That they should experience the death of someone close as early as possible.
(c) That they should be taught from the time they are six that they are on the way to death.
(d) That they should not be told about death so that they won't worry about it.

2. Who is sitting on the bench, at the foot of the bed, at the beginning of Act 1?
(a) A.
(b) C.
(c) The Boy.
(d) B.

3. Who were the only "colored" people that A knew?
(a) Girls she went to school with.
(b) The "help."
(c) Her neighbors.
(d) Girls she worked with.

4. Who was A taller than?
(a) B.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Sis.
(d) C.

5. Who reacts negatively to the racism in A's remarks?
(a) The boy.
(b) The nurse.
(c) B.
(d) C.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is A referring when she uses the pronoun "he"?

2. What does C say about memories in Act 1, Part 3?

3. What does A say to C at the end of Act 1, Part 2?

4. Why was A jealous of Sis?

5. A was more careful than Sis about what?

(see the answer key)

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