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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles' behavior becomes increasingly more _______________.
(a) Spontaneous.
(b) Generous.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Loving.

2. What is Lottie's friend, Sade's, last name?
(a) Voiles.
(b) MaGee.
(c) Dunaway.
(d) Dupin.

3. The women playing cards say nice things to Trudy about ________________________.
(a) The flattering color of her sweater.
(b) Her hairstyle.
(c) Her cooking.
(d) Her being pregnant with twins.

4. What does Lottie note about Sade's quilt when she sees it at Sade's house?
(a) It is bigger than planned.
(b) It is almost finished.
(c) The recent stitching is very bad.
(d) The squares are uneven.

5. What does Charles refuse to do when a boy is killed at the mill?
(a) Call his parents.
(b) Pay for the funeral.
(c) Send flowers.
(d) Halt production.

6. Lottie says that a person can tell how a man feels about his wife by _____________________.
(a) The expensive gifts he gives her.
(b) The way he addresses her in public.
(c) The trips he arranges for the couple.
(d) The size of the house in which they live.

7. What is the main course of the dinner that Lottie and Betty take to the new family in town?
(a) Fried Chicken.
(b) Ham.
(c) Roast Beef.
(d) Meat Loaf.

8. Lottie gives advice to Amanda on ______________________ during the Depression.
(a) Keeping up family morale.
(b) Reducing household expenses.
(c) Cooking on a budget.
(d) Taking care of her clothes.

9. What do the men in Lottie's family do all day, every day?
(a) Curse.
(b) Sing.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Drink.

10. How can Lottie best be described?
(a) Outgoing.
(b) Shy.
(c) Psychopathic.
(d) Sullen.

11. How does Lottie get Sade's husband to stop cheating on her?
(a) She asks the minister to talk to him.
(b) She shoots him.
(c) She puts an ad in the local paper about his behavior.
(d) She spreads a rumor about the woman he has been seeing.

12. Betty notes a correlation between economic hardship and __________________.
(a) Burglaries.
(b) Infidelity.
(c) Murders.
(d) Illness.

13. What does Lottie do with her dinner that makes Charles angry?
(a) She puts in on the garden.
(b) She flushes it down the commode.
(c) She gives it to the neighbor's dogs.
(d) She throws it on the floor.

14. What is Lottie's religion?
(a) Episcopalian.
(b) Methodist.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Catholic.

15. At what age did Lottie have to leave school?
(a) 9.
(b) 15.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it in Chapter 9?

2. Which of the following does Trudy's husband steal?

3. What does the doctor say is the source of Betty's illness?

4. Despite her dislike for Trudy, who still finds a way to help the woman care for her children?

5. According to Lottie, the most happily married couple in the community is ___________________.

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