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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mattie carry as she and Butch walk to the field?
(a) Purse
(b) Bucket
(c) Machete
(d) Knapsack

2. What does the author want the reader to understand?
(a) What she hopes to achieve in life
(b) What she went through to write this book
(c) What she experienced as a girl
(d) What she is trying to convey about the characters

3. What has Mattie's father called Butch?
(a) Not fit for decent company
(b) A no-'count ditch hound
(c) Good for nothin'
(d) An idiot

4. Who is the author of the Opening Poem?
(a) Gloria Naylor
(b) Langston Hughes
(c) Shel Silverstein
(d) Sylvia Plath

5. The new tenants "clung to the _______________ with a desperate acceptance."
(a) religion
(b) streets
(c) culture
(d) building

Short Answer Questions

1. What song does Ben sing when he is drinking?

2. What does Mattie's father consider her to be?

3. "Does it stink like _________________?"

4. What did the tenants know when they heard Ben singing this song?

5. Who do Mattie and Butch encounter on the road to the field?

(see the answer key)

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