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WorksheetsBlack Like Me Quizzizz Up to Page 70
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 32mins
John Howard Griffiin is heading to Mississippi, what method of transportation did he take?
Plane
Bus
Train
Car
What was John Howard Griffin's Purpose of going to Mississippi?
To learn about Mississippi's capital.
He wanted to live there because he's never been there before.
He wants to understand the relationship between Negroes and White people.
He doesn't believe that Mississippi is a place that is racist.
Who was Mack Parker?
A Negro man that went to prison and was raped.
A Negro man that was kidnapped and lynched.
A Negro man that became best friends with John Howard Griffin.
A Negro man that was in the newspaper for writing a novel.
In Mississippi, what is the significance of their Justice System. Why don't Negroes like it?
Negroes don't believe that it treats them fairly.
The justice system only gives rights to those who pay for it.
Negroes feel like the justice system is prejudice against them.
All of the above
Why is Christophe a key character in Black Like Me?
He is an example of the different types of Negroes in the world that have experienced discrimination.
He isn't a key character.
He scared John Howard Griffin on the bus and so John included him in the story.
He symbolizes the self-hatred that Negroes have against their own race.
Why did Bill feel it was important to give John Howard Griffin advice about Mississippi?
Bill knew that Mississippi had its own special rules that Negroes and Whites established.
Bill knew that John was not from Mississippi, and wanted to make sure that he would not jeopardize his blackness.
Who is Bill?
Mississippi had given all of the natives a pamphlet with special rules and Bill was discussing them with John.
What was the advice that Bill gave to John about Mississippi? (59)
Speak only when spoken too; Don't laugh in public; Plan your bathroom times around the bus schedules.
Find a safe place to live; Work and don't be lazy; Don't linger around one place too long or you'll get arrested.
Don't look at a white woman; If white boys holler at you keep walking; If people think you have money on you, they will try to rob you.
None of the above
What happened to John Howard Griffin at the rest stop?
He got off the bus with Bill to use the rest room.
He was unable to use the rest room because he got into a fight.
The bus driver would not let JHG or the others off the bus.
Nothing happened.
What did the Negroes decide to do in the bus on the way Hattiesburg?
Pee on the bus
Create a band
Sit in the front of the bus
Beat up the bus driver
What is the significance of Poplarville in Mississippi?
It sounds like "popular""
The Civil Right Movement started here
This is where Mack Parker was from
Where did Bill send John Howard Griffin when he got to Hattiesburg? (65)
He went to Bill's house
He went to a hotel.
He went to the Negro Quarter.
He went to a bar
When John Howard Griffin looked at himself on page 66, why did he feel that he was in hell?
He finally understands the treatment that the Negroes are going through and he feels like it isn't right.
He felt lonely and detached from the world he knew and misses being a white man.
He heard voices in his mind that made fun of him and it made him upset
He was blinded by the yellow light in his room and he hated the way the room looked.
John Howard Griffin compared the treatment of Negroes by white people to what? (67)
Less than human
Less than livestock (animals)
Less than normal
Less than equal.
On page 68, John Howard Griffin is experiencing madness. What is the cause of this?
He is mentally unable to express himself because of his learned behavior patterns.
He is unable to speak to his wife because he is stuck in the mentality that he cannot speak to a white woman because he is Negro.
His mind is trapped behind the obstacles of a Negro and the fact that his people (whites) are the ones that have caused it.
He understood that these were affects of his experience but he was not able to break through out of his madness.
On Page 69, John Howard Griffin identifies "whooping it up" in the Negro community. What does this phrase mean?
Negroes out having sex and partying all night long
Negroes indulging in worldly desires to relieve them from the pain of being black
Negroes contrite over their life because of how they are treated.
