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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Opening Poem tell the reader the book will be about?
(a) Marriage and divorce
(b) Guilty pleasures
(c) World peace
(d) Dreams unrealized

2. What does Mattie discover when she returns from work?
(a) Basil has supper ready
(b) Basil is asleep
(c) Basil has cleaned the house
(d) Basil is gone

3. Who does Mattie go to visit a week later?
(a) Butch's cousin, Emma
(b) Her grandmother
(c) The church deacon
(d) Her friend, Etta

4. How old is Basil as the chapter ends?
(a) 13
(b) 18
(c) 23
(d) 30

5. What does Basil tell Mattie?
(a) The store is out of strawberries
(b) He needs money
(c) He has killed a man
(d) He needs a ride home

Short Answer Questions

1. "Or fester ________________ and then run?"

2. Where does Eugene say he is going for a job?

3. What does Ben call his "morning sun"?

4. What does Mattie's father consider her to be?

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

(see the answer key)

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