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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Miss Eva still not told Mattie after five years?
(a) What the rent is
(b) What her real name is
(c) How many children she has
(d) Why she murdered her second husband

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

3. What is the nationality of people now moving into the neighborhood?
(a) Spanish
(b) Asian
(c) Mediterranean
(d) English

4. What serious illness did Mattie have when she was little?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Scarlet Fever
(c) Swine Flu
(d) Malaria

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the attorney advise Mattie regarding Basil's bail?

2. What did the tenants know when they heard Ben singing this song?

3. How old is Basil at the beginning of this chapter?

4. What did Basil do to the police officer?

5. "Or does it _____________?"

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cora Lee differ in her view of the necessity of having a man?

2. What can the tenants tell from Ben's singing?

3. What is the fate of Cora Lee's babies as they begin to grow up?

4. Explain how Butch's behavior with women foreshadows the lives of all the women to come in the story.

5. Explain the significance of music in Etta's life.

6. On what grounds do Ben and Lorraine form an unlikely friendship?

7. What life lessons is the author imparting through Mattie, Miss Eva and Etta at this point of the story?

8. Explain how Basil is a product of his upbringing even though Mattie thought she was raising him the right way.

9. What is the sadness of Mattie's life as far as Basil, the man, is concerned?

10. How does Mattie show more maturity even though she is younger than Etta?

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