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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Selina, Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Silla manage to evict Suggie?
(a) By telling her that only married women can board there.
(b) By making Suggie's life so miserable that she decides to leave on her own.
(c) By revealing that she has stolen money.
(d) By convincing other roomers to call her a prostitute.

2. In Book 3, when she attends the wedding, which of the following does Selina mentally picture herself as being in relation to the bow on her head?
(a) A unicorn with his horn.
(b) Holding up the world at last.
(c) A queen with a crown.
(d) Athena in her flowing gowns.

3. What does Selina daydream about when her parents fight?
(a) About being a better mother than her own.
(b) About running away to California.
(c) About being the white child of the former owners of the brownstone.
(d) About being married to a handsome man who is nice.

4. What happens on the walk home after the Association meeting?
(a) Clive convinces Selina to join the Association.
(b) Selina remembers Miss Thompson's story and runs away.
(c) They drink rum.
(d) Selina and Clive have sex.

5. During the argument between Selina and Beryl in Book 2, what does Selina believe that she will never do?
(a) Have babies.
(b) Understand love.
(c) Start bleeding.
(d) Get a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following means of transportation do Beryl and Selina take to the park?

2. Which of the following is the reason upon which Clive bases his thoughts that Selina should not socialize with Whites?

3. Why does Selina think that babies are born by cutting the mother's stomach open?

4. Upon her eviction, which of the following does Suggie give to Selina?

5. What happens to Deighton at the mattress factory?

(see the answer key)

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