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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will serve as Cora Lee's mentor now?
(a) Etta
(b) Mattie
(c) Kiswana
(d) Ben

2. What does Mattie do for Basil this evening?
(a) Irons his clothes
(b) Cleans his room
(c) Mends his shirts
(d) Cooks dinner

3. What has Miss Eva still not told Mattie after five years?
(a) What the rent is
(b) What her real name is
(c) Why she murdered her second husband
(d) How many children she has

4. What does Kiswana accuse her mother of being?
(a) A poor excuse for a mother
(b) A white man's nigger
(c) A drug addict
(d) An inspiration

5. In what state did Mattie grow up?
(a) Georgia
(b) North Carolina
(c) Kentucky
(d) Tennessee

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Opening Poem tell the reader the book will be about?

2. Who is the story about?

3. Mattie knows that Basil is ____________________.

4. What does the character in #97 carry under her arms?

5. Whose funeral is Eugene going to attend?

(see the answer key)

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