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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Pastorale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Selina and Beryl argue about in Book 2?
(a) About how animals eat.
(b) About the identity of Virgie's boyfriend.
(c) About how to feed a baby.
(d) About how babies are born.

2. How does Selina feel when she realizes that her mother has not told her about the facts of life?
(a) Betrayed.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Scared.
(d) Angry.

3. Why does Selina think that babies are born by cutting the mother's stomach open?
(a) Because that is what Ina had told her.
(b) Because she has read it in a medical book.
(c) Because that had been the way that Virgie had delivered her baby--by Caesarean section.
(d) Because Selina has a younger sibling who was born in that manner.

4. What sets Miss Mary apart from the other tenants?
(a) She has a car.
(b) She is Selina's father's employer.
(c) She owns the brownstone.
(d) She is White.

5. In Book 1, Chapter 3, why does the other man think that Deighton will not make money at his latest venture?
(a) Because White people are not be likely to hire him.
(b) Because he is lazy.
(c) Because there are not any good jobs available.
(d) Because he is stupid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Thompson do for a living?

2. How does Miss Thompson like to spend her money?

3. What type of job do most immigrant women in the story have?

4. Which of the following is the year in which the opening of the book is set?

5. Which of the following areas is the point from which the Boyce family emigrates?

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