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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what did Ben mumble?
(a) The political process
(b) Taxes
(c) The price of wine
(d) An unfaithful wife and lame daughter

3. Which of the following distinctive characteristics did this new group not have?
(a) Smells
(b) Foods
(c) Codes
(d) Religion

4. What does Mattie do when Miss Eva dies?
(a) Has Miss Eva cremated
(b) Leaves for Harlem
(c) Moves back home
(d) Buys Miss Eva's house

5. Who is the author of this book?
(a) Gloria Naylor
(b) Harper Lee
(c) Oprah Winfrey
(d) Halle Berry

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

7. What bites Basil's cheek one night?
(a) A dog
(b) A rat
(c) A child
(d) A mosquito

8. The people of Brewster Place could be called a _________________.
(a) disaster
(b) community
(c) accident waiting to happen
(d) micro-society

9. "What happens to a dream ___________?"
(a) deferred
(b) crushed
(c) that dies
(d) realized

10. What season is it when Mattie Michael moves into Brewster Place?
(a) Summer
(b) Spring
(c) Fall
(d) Winter

11. Who is the author of the Opening Poem?
(a) Langston Hughes
(b) Sylvia Plath
(c) Shel Silverstein
(d) Gloria Naylor

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

13. Who invites Mattie and Basil to live in her home?
(a) Mattie's grandmother
(b) Mattie's sister
(c) Etta's mother
(d) Miss Eva

14. What is one of the literary elements that the author uses throughout the book?
(a) Documentaries
(b) Historical documents
(c) Newspaper articles
(d) Poetry

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattie's father's love for her was _____________.

2. What does Basil want from Mattie?

3. What is the nationality of people now moving into the neighborhood?

4. What does Butch invite Mattie to do?

5. How is the information about the characters to be presented?

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