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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book 1, Chapter 3, what do Suggie and her date drink?
(a) Milk.
(b) Soda.
(c) Gin.
(d) Rum.

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

3. What does Selina see at the park in Book 2?
(a) Her sister with a boy.
(b) Birds mating.
(c) Lovers displaying affection toward each other.
(d) Babies nursing.

4. Who is not in the Boyce family photograph?
(a) Silla.
(b) Selina.
(c) The son.
(d) Ina.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the children at Miss Thompson's hungry?

2. How does Selina feel when she realizes that her mother has not told her about the facts of life?

3. What does Mary think that Maritze's focus should be?

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

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