Selection Quizzes (English)



1.	What is Spike Lee's film about?
	A.	a teacher and four of her students
	B.	the infamous Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing
	C.	the lives of four African American girls as they go from eight year olds to grownups
	D.	a mother and her four children growing up in Alabama

2.	What does Lee use to present the story of the four little girls?
	A.	four very talented actors
	B.	photographs, home movies, and the memories of people who knew the girls
	C.	the diaries of the girls
	D.	the grown-up girls tell about their lives while the screen shows pictures

3.	Why does Roger Ebert mention the life history of Charlayne Hunter-Gault?
	A.	because she was the reporter for a story about the girls
	B.	to show us what it must have been like for the girls
	C.	to contrast her success with the history of one of the girls
	D.	because she grew up near the four girls

4.	Which of these is NOT mentioned as part of the Southern civil-rights movement?
	A.	fighting
	B.	marches
	C.	arrests
	D.	sit-ins

5.	According to the author, what different emotions lie on the surface and in the depths of the film?
	A.	excitement and joy for the future
	B.	deep seated anger and hopelessness
	C.	confusion and pain
	D.	mostly sadness and regret but anger too

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