Richard Wright Black Boy

When Richard finally stands up to the neighborhood kids who beat him and took his money, he says he won the rights to streets of ______.

• Memphis

• Atlanta

• Natchez

• Tennessee

Who is Miss Simon?

• Richard's neighbor

• Richard's dad's girlfriend

• friend of Granny

• woman who ran the orphanage

Who is this quote describing: "though ties of blood made us kin... we were forever strangers, speaking a different language, living on vastly distant planes of reality... his fearsome aspect of twenty-five years ago gone forever from him"

• Richard's dad

• Richard's brother

• Richard's neighbor

• Uncle Clark

What happened JUST before this: "Shocked, frightened, alone... my mother and Aunt Maggie lost faith in themselves and, after much debate and hesitation, they decided to return home to Granny and rest, think , map out new plans for living" (Wright 55).

• Richard said something offensive to Granny

• Uncle Hoskins (Maggie's husband) was lynched

• Richard had become a drunkard AND sober

• Richard had eaten well at Aunt Maggie's/Unckle Hoskin's

At his first formal school day in West Helena, what happened?

• he left school midday because he was sick

• he wowed the teacher with one of his fiction stories

• he had to fight with other boys in the yard to prove himself

• he froze when asked to write his name on the board

True/False: After Richard Wright's mom's sickness, Richard and his brother had to be split up because of financial reasons.

• True

• False

Who should be in the blank: "_______talked to me as though I were a grownup and I wondered if I could do what was expected of me. I had always felt a certain warmth with my mother, even when we had lived in squalor; but I felt none here" (Wright 89).

• Granny

• Uncle Tom

• Aunt Jody and Uncle Clark

• Aunt Maggie

What happened after Richard said this? "This was my test. If I failed now, I would have failed at school, for the first trial came not in books, but in how one's fellows took to one, what value they placed upon one's willingness to fight."

• he defended himself and proved his worth

• he lost a fight and got beaten badly

• his brother prevented him from starting a fight

• the principal expelled him from school

What religion does Granny belong to?

• Orthodox Church

• Seventh Day Adventist

• Christian Scientists

• Non-denominational Christian

What goes in the blank: My mother's suffering grew into a _____ in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours; the restless moving the futile seeking, the uncertainty, the fear, the dread..." (Wright 100).

• burden

• symbol

• blister

• lost memory