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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Selina daydream about when her parents fight?
(a) About being married to a handsome man who is nice.
(b) About being the white child of the former owners of the brownstone.
(c) About running away to California.
(d) About being a better mother than her own.

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

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 the neighbors have moved out.
(c) She finds out that her mother is still waiting for her father.
(d) She finds out that her father has gambled the money away.

4. What does Silla's friend, Florrie do to Selina that upsets her?
(a) Touches her breast.
(b) Makes fun of her.
(c) Tells her that she is ugly.
(d) Hits her.

5. In Book 3, what is Silla's reaction after hearing her father reminisce about courting her mother?
(a) She has a hard time believing that her mother had ever been young and dancing.
(b) She thinks that her father is crazy.
(c) She wonders whether her father is making up the stories that he is telling.
(d) She wonders whether she will ever find a husband.

6. What does Beryl tell Selina will happen to her if she does not menstruate by the time that she turns 20 years of age?
(a) That she will die.
(b) That she will be shunned.
(c) That she will lose her hair.
(d) That she will get fat.

7. How many siblings does Beryl have?
(a) Five (5).
(b) Six (6).
(c) Seven (7).
(d) Three (3).

8. How much does the Boyce family get from the sale of their land?
(a) $9,000.
(b) $900,000.
(c) $90,000.
(d) $900.

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

10. 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 thought that girls were evil.
(d) Because they knew that girls would never get married if they did not have knowledge about sex.

11. Why does Miss Thompson not go to the doctor?
(a) Because she thinks that they will send her to an asylum.
(b) Because she does not believe that a doctor can cure her.
(c) Because she is afraid of doctors.
(d) Because she does not have any money.

12. What does Selina decide to do about her mother's plan to sell her father's land?
(a) Go to the police.
(b) Go to the factory and talk to her mother.
(c) Tell her father before her mother can do anything.
(d) Tell the priest so that he will convince her mother to stop.

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

14. What does Ina tell her mother that her father plans to do?
(a) Move back to the island.
(b) Divorce her.
(c) Move west.
(d) Have a son.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Silla tell her daughters that she did as a child?

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

3. How does Deighton's mistress treat him?

4. Which of the following item types will Silla make and sell for extra money?

5. What is the name of Beryl's father?

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