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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Selina, Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Silla manage to evict Suggie?
(a) By telling her that only married women can board there.
(b) By making Suggie's life so miserable that she decides to leave on her own.
(c) By revealing that she has stolen money.
(d) By convincing other roomers to call her a prostitute.

2. Where does Selina go with Ina while her parents are arguing about Deighton's involvement with Father Peace?
(a) To the neighbor's house.
(b) To church.
(c) To the store.
(d) To Beryl's house.

3. What does Selina find out when she returns home that Monday evening after her father has cashed the check from the land sale?
(a) She finds out that her mother has left.
(b) She finds out that her father has gambled the money away.
(c) She finds out that the neighbors have moved out.
(d) She finds out that her mother is still waiting for her father.

4. What happens on the walk home after the Association meeting?
(a) Clive convinces Selina to join the Association.
(b) They drink rum.
(c) Selina remembers Miss Thompson's story and runs away.
(d) Selina and Clive have sex.

5. Why did parents avoid teaching their daughters about sex in the early part of the 20th Century?
(a) Because they thought that the girls would not have sex if they did not know about it.
(b) Because they wanted to scare the girls.
(c) Because they knew that girls would never get married if they did not have knowledge about sex.
(d) Because they thought that girls were evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of the reasons that Maritze is bitter?

2. On the occasion of Selina's new acquaintance walking her home from the Association meeting, where do they stop?

3. What happens when Silla goes into Miss Mary's room?

4. In Book 4, which of the of the following does Ina declare to care more about than boys?

5. What does Silla's friend, Florrie do to Selina that upsets her?

(see the answer key)

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