Choose the best answer for each question. At the end of the quiz, your score will appear here. Note: this quiz is based on the original story. Some of the questions and answers may not be applicable to our simplified story.
Who is telling the story?
An unknown story-teller.
One of the children in the story.
One of the adults in the story.
Why did the children sometimes have to wake Nancy up to tell her to come and cook breakfast?
Because she was drunk from whiskey.
Because she had spent the night with a man.
Because she was taking cocaine.
Why was Nancy's stomach getting bigger?
She had a watermelon under her dress.
She was going to have a baby.
She ate well when coking for the family.
Why was Nancy scared to go home alone at night?
Because Jubah was in Memphis and she was scared of the dark.
Because she thought that Jubah might be waiting to hurt her.
Because she was frightened of Mr Stovall and other white men.
Why didn't the children's mother like her husband walking Nancy home?
Because she was afraid to be left alone with the children.
Because she didn't trust him to be alone with Nancy.
Because Jubah might do something to hurt him..
Why did Nancy want the children to spend the night in her house?
So that Jubah would stay away.
Because she was afraid of the dark.
To have fun together like before.
Why did water start running down Nancy's face when the children were in her house?
She had been crying because Jubah had left her.
They heard someone outside and she was very scared.
She had been making popcorn and the fire was hot..
Twice in the story Nancy says words to the effect that: "I'm just a nigger. It ain’t no fault of mine." What do you think she could mean here?
As a Negro, she had little say about her life.
She didn't mean to make Jubah run away.
She wishes the children's mother liked her more.
At the end of the story the narrator says: "Her (Nancy's) life was sitting there with the door open and the lamp lit, waiting," Who or what was she most likely waiting for?
The sun.
Jubah.
A white man.
'Symbolism' in literature is where a real object is used to stand for a thought, idea or feeling. What do you think the ditch could be a symbol for in the story?
The friendship between the three children and Nancy.
The social differences between white and black Americans.
How it is wrong to judge people by their color or job.