Alex's Eyes: CH 1-3 Questions by Kay Carroll

Who is telling the story in " Alex's Eyes?"

• The narrator(author)

• Alex

• Molly

• Ma

Although called Molly all her life, what was the young woman's birth name and where was she born?

• Mildred,

  She was born in Boston

• Milly,

  She was born in Carrollton, Mississippi

• Mary,

  She was born just to the north of the Mississippi Delta

• Millicent,

  She was born in the Mississippi Delta

What was her husband's name?

• Michael

• Alex

• John

• Duncan

What law passed 6 years earlier, making it illegal to discriminate based on race,

• The 13th Amendment

• The Bill of Rights

• The 1964 Civil Rights Act

• The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Where did the couple live at first?

• Alex and Molly lived with ma

• Alex and Molly lived in town

• Alex and Molly lived in Boston Massachusetts

• They lived with Alex's mother

What happened to Alex's father?

• He lived with Alex’s mother before moving back to Grenada.

• He was murdered in town one Friday night.

• He had come back from Virginia.

• ...men like her brother and Alex were being lynched for any reason.

How large was Molly and Alex's new family in Chapter 2

• Molly had one child

• They didn't have chldren

• They had 2 children

• They had 3 children

According to Chapter 3, What the only two groups after Reconstruction in the South?

• Asian and White

• Hispanic and White

• African and European

• Whites and Non-Whites

Use context clues to define "blood quantam"?

Beginning in 1880, who reinforced the concepts of race,  which  had  been  reported  by  some   of   the  professed scientific studies of the 18th and 19th centuries?

• The Automobile Industry

• The Federal Government

• The Movie Industry

• The Indian Tribes