Reading Quiz #1: pages 1 – 25

1. Briefly describe Nanny's life history.

2. Reflect on the following quotation. "Ah even hated de way you was born. But, all de same Ah said said thank God, Ah got aother chance. Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but there wasn't no pulpit for me. Freedom found me wid' a baby daughter in my arms, so Ah said . . . She would expound what I felt . . . [Then] Ah said Ah'd save the text for you."

3. What's Janie's first dream symbolized by the pear tree and what happens to it?