View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Selina do as Beryl comforts her at the park in Book 2?
(a) She reads poetry that she has written.
(b) She wonders what is going on.
(c) She tells a story from the island.
(d) She keeps arguing.

3. In what part of New York does the Boyce family live?
(a) Queens.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Little Italy.

4. What does Mary think that Maritze's focus should be?
(a) Making more friends.
(b) Finding a husband.
(c) Finding a new home.
(d) Getting a job.

5. How does Maritze react to Suggie's lovers staying over?
(a) She bangs on the wall between their apartments.
(b) She screams.
(c) She tries to kill them.
(d) She wants to move away.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Deighton's mistress treat him?

2. During the argument between Selina and Beryl in Book 2, what does Selina believe that she will never do?

3. What does Ina tell her mother that her father plans to do?

4. Who does Deighton see on his way to visit his mistress?

5. In Book 1, Chapter 3, why does the other man think that Deighton will not make money at his latest venture?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 267 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample