Having Our Say -- Ch. 11-12

Because Raleigh is a "fairly liberal" area, the girls don't have much trouble with white people before Jim Crow—they're even friendly with the ________ who hang around the city center.

• Ku Klux Klan

• elderly Confederate veterans

• other negro children

• white children

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CCSS.RL.6.2

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One time, a pair of missionaries from the North gives them each fancy a china doll. Bessie pulls what we like to call a "Bessie" and ___________.

• breaks the doll

• paints her doll to match her own skin color

• says "Thank You!"

• says "No Thank You!"

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Their favorite white person is Miss Grace Moseley, a young teacher at St. Aug's who is a true believer in racial equality. She _________________ every Wednesday night.

• reads them Shakespeare

• takes them out for dinner

• cleans their house

• does their hair

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

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Things get weird after Jim Crow. One time, a white man is incredibly friendly to Nanny and Sadie -- who are light-skinned enough to pass as white. What makes him realize they were colored?

• When Henry (a darker black man) shows up and hugs Nanny.

• When Nanny stands up for herself and shouts at the white man.

• When Nanny whispers to the man that she is a Negro.

• When he looks at her a bit closer.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

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Sadie's deals with Jim Crow by _____________ (pretending she doesn't understand the rules).

• playing dumb

• protesting

• getting angry

• standing up for herself

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which beau was the cream of the crop at St. Aug’s?

• Mr. Smeads

• James Milliam

• Henry Delany

• Nanny Delany

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

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Vocational training is mostly about:

• Being happy

• Getting a job

• Advancing society

• Reading and writing (literacy)

• Religion and faith

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Plessy vs. Ferguson was the court case that started the official Jim Crow laws which said that facilities for blacks and whites should be “_________________________”.

• Separate but equal

• Integrated

• Prohibited

• Expensive

• Private

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Miss Moseley gave the girls a glimpse of ...

• a classical education

• a vocation

• Jim Crow

• aggression

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

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The way Bessie responded when given the China doll showed Bessie's ...

• pride

• hatred

• passiveness

• aggressiveness

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3