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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game do Margot and Sharon play?

2. To Vida, what does Regina represent?

3. What is the name of Greer's patient's granddaughter?

4. What is Betsey's position in her family?

5. What is the location that Betsey goes to in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Betsey try to get back at Bernice?

2. What does Mrs. Maureen say about segregation, and what do her beliefs represent?

3. What is Jane's reaction to Carrie not showing up for work?

4. Why does Betsey feel that her runaway name should be Cora Sue Betsey Anne Calhoun Brown? Where does she get this name?

5. Describe Susan Linda and her home.

6. What is Jane's reaction to Bernice appearing?

7. How does Betsey feel about white people in Chapter 7?

8. In what way is Chapter 13 a transition chapter?

9. Describe Betsey's father, Greer.

10. Why does Jane enjoy the neighborhood that she lives in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What effect does diction (word choice) have on the story? Does it make sense that the author's method of conveying a message is more important than the message itself? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author use dialect to convey a message about the characters? What message is conveyed? Why is dialect important to the story? Would the quality of literature change if the unique dialect were stripped from the story?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of each housekeeper (Bernice, Regina, and Carrie) on the Brown family? How do they change the family? Is she a positive or negative influence on the family? How does the reader know this?

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