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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What separates Brewster Place from a new business district?
(a) A wall
(b) A high fence
(c) A one-way street
(d) Prejudice

2. What is another literary element that the author uses throughout the book?
(a) Song lyrics
(b) Nursery rhymes
(c) Church hymns
(d) TV jingles

3. What is Brewster Place?
(a) A shopping center
(b) A boutique hotel
(c) A series of tenement apartments
(d) A community center

4. "Does it dry up like ____________________?"
(a) yesterday's meat loaf
(b) a raisin in the sun
(c) the desert
(d) affections

5. What song does Ben sing when he is drinking?
(a) "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
(b) "Who Let the Dogs Out"
(c) "She's a Brick House"
(d) "We Are Family"

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the Opening Poem?

2. What is one of the literary elements that the author uses throughout the book?

3. Brewster Place was especially fond of its ________________________.

4. Who is the author of this book?

5. "Or fester ________________ and then run?"

(see the answer key)

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