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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Does it stink like _________________?"
(a) rotten meat
(b) a locker room
(c) a garbage pail
(d) old shoes

2. What is the demographic of the area where Brewster Place is located?
(a) All black
(b) All Hispanic
(c) All white
(d) Segregated, multi-racial

3. The new tenants "clung to the _______________ with a desperate acceptance."
(a) culture
(b) streets
(c) building
(d) religion

4. What has Mattie brought with her from her last house?
(a) Garden decorations
(b) Silk flowers
(c) Plastic ferns
(d) Houseplants

5. Who is the story about?
(a) Various women
(b) Professors
(c) Dock workers
(d) Schoolchildren

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mattie's mother stop Mattie's father's rage?

2. "Maybe it just _____________ like a heavy load."

3. What does Mattie tell her father about the father of her unborn child?

4. Which of the following distinctive characteristics did this new group not have?

5. Brewster Place was especially fond of its ________________________.

(see the answer key)

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