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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Selina, Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Book 3, what news do Silla's friends inform her about that triggers her anger?
(a) That the food that she cooks is not tasty.
(b) That Selina is now a woman.
(c) That her husband has a mistress.
(d) That other islanders are buying houses.

4. In Book 3, what are the names of Silla's two friends who visit her to talk about church?
(a) Florrie and Iris.
(b) Florrie and Irene.
(c) Elinor and Hattie.
(d) Beulah and Margaret.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Selina and Beryl argue about in Book 2?

2. Why does Miss Thompson not go to the doctor?

3. Who is Vergie?

4. What does Selina discover that her father has left behind upon her return with Ian following her parents' argument over Deighton's involvement with Father Peace?

5. What is Selina's sister's name?

(see the answer key)

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