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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Vergie?
(a) A debt collector.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) A nun.
(d) A teacher.

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

3. Who does Deighton see on his way to visit his mistress?
(a) The police.
(b) Yearwood.
(c) Miss Mary.
(d) His mother.

4. What does Silla tell her daughters that she did as a child?
(a) Worked in the fields.
(b) Shined shoes.
(c) Wove cloth.
(d) Drank rum.

5. What is the name of Beryl's father?
(a) Daniel.
(b) William.
(c) Percy.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Silla not happy about Deighton's good news?

3. When they get to the park, where do Beryl and Selina go?

4. When Suggie gives Selina some rum to drink in Book 2, what does she tell Selina that the rum will do to her?

5. Where do people in the story go for fun on a Saturday night?

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