Chapters 9 and 10
Quiz by Edith Carley
Feel free to use or edit a copy
includes Teacher and Student dashboards
Measure skillsfrom any curriculum
Measure skills
from any curriculum
Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
With a free account, teachers can
- edit the questions
- save a copy for later
- start a class game
- automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
- assign as homework
- share a link with colleagues
- print as a bubble sheet
11 questions
Show answers
- Q1Where is Memphis? (Look on the map on p4)In the Southin the North120s
- Q2What his is landlady (Vermieterin) called?Mrs MossMrs WardMrs Thompson120s
- Q3What does Richard think of Mr Olin?He doesn't know if he can trust him.He's afraid of him.He admires him.120s
- Q4Why do the white men want the two boys to fight, according to Richard?because they'll find it amusingbecause they are scared of the boysbecause there is a rivalry between the two factories120s
- Q5Why doesn't Richard want to fight?because he doesn't want to take the white people's moneybecause he would feel like he'd done something immoralbecause 5 dollars isn't enough money120s
- Q6What happens when Richard and Harrison fight?They pretend to fight but don't really hurt eachother.They become uncontrollably angry.They fight until they fall over from exhaustion.120s
- Q7What do we learn about civil rights in Memphis?Black people were forbidden from entering libraries.Black people weren't allowed to borrow books from the library.It was illegal for black people to read books.120s
- Q8Who was H L Mencken?Richard's colleaguea librarianan important American political and social writer120s
- Q9Richard says he tried to look as "unbookish as possible" (page 98). What does unbookish mean?rudeinto reading booksunintellectual120s
- Q10What effects do the books have on him?They help him to concentrate better at work.They help him to see everything from a new perspective.They give him nightmares.120s
- Q11How does Richard's boss react when he tells them he's moving to the North?He supports him.He tells him going would be a mistake.He doubts Richard can lead a better life there.120s