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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Long Black Song," Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Big Boy and Bobo try to avoid on the way home?
(a) Old Man Harvey
(b) The police
(c) White people
(d) Their parents

2. What phrase is Wright worried the white man in the elevator will find insulting if he said it?
(a) Top of the morning
(b) Good night
(c) Morning has broken
(d) Thank you

3. When does the salesman say he will come back?
(a) The next morning
(b) Next month
(c) Two weeks
(d) Next week

4. Why does the black maid forgive Wright for not arguing with the white man?
(a) The white man was a wimp
(b) He is beautiful
(c) He has promised to marry her
(d) He had no choice

5. How is Will related to Peters?
(a) Cousin
(b) Brother
(c) Son
(d) Nephew

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wright have to do when he sees a white man in the elevator?

2. Where do Mann and Brinkley take the Heartfield family?

3. What does Silas find on the quilt?

4. Who meets Mann in town?

5. Why do the whites refer to the castrated bellboy as lucky?

(see the answer key)

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