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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Deighton at the mattress factory?
(a) His arm is injured in the machinery.
(b) He has a heart attack.
(c) He gets fired.
(d) He causes a riot.

2. Why is Book 2 called Pastorale?
(a) Because the pastor preaches a sermon in Book 2.
(b) Because it has elements of nature: the park, the zoo, and talk about babies.
(c) Because it takes place in a pasture.
(d) Because the girls listen to a concert where a pastorale is performed.

3. What type of mood does Deighton have on that Monday morning before he goes to the bank to cash the check from the land sale?
(a) Cheerful.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Angry.
(d) Downtrodden.

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

5. What are Deighton's happy news?
(a) That they are about to have a son.
(b) That he has inherited land in Barbados.
(c) That he is buying a house.
(d) That he has gotten a job.

6. At the end of Book 3, Chapter 4, how does Deighton respond when he discovers what his wife has done?
(a) He refuses to deposit the money.
(b) He divorces his wife so that she cannot have the money.
(c) He agrees to go to the bank.
(d) He goes to Barbados to retrieve his land.

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

8. Why does Selina think that babies are born by cutting the mother's stomach open?
(a) Because that had been the way that Virgie had delivered her baby--by Caesarean section.
(b) Because Selina has a younger sibling who was born in that manner.
(c) Because she has read it in a medical book.
(d) Because that is what Ina had told her.

9. Who is Father Peace?
(a) A priest who tries to help Selina's family.
(b) A man from Barbados who claims to be God.
(c) A missionary from the Caribbean.
(d) A man who Deighton believes to be God incarnate.

10. What does Silla think of Selina?
(a) That Selina is the cross that she has to bear.
(b) That Selina is her pride and joy.
(c) That Selina should be sent away.
(d) That Selina will never amount to anything.

11. Which of the following item types will Silla make and sell for extra money?
(a) Delicacies from Barbados.
(b) Handmade brooms.
(c) Hand-strung rosary beads.
(d) Knitted sweaters.

12. What does Suggie like to drink?
(a) Water.
(b) Rum.
(c) Milk.
(d) Beer.

13. How do others react when Selina tries to tell them about her mother's plan to sell her father's land?
(a) They do not listen to her.
(b) They tell her mother.
(c) They tell her that it is not any of her business.
(d) They tell her father.

14. What is The New Light?
(a) A new religion.
(b) A clothing resale shop in Selina's neighborhood.
(c) A religious newspaper.
(d) A book that Selina is reading.

15. What does Miss Thompson do for a living?
(a) She runs a bakery and does laundry.
(b) She runs a beauty shop and cleans offices.
(c) She cleans homes for the rich.
(d) She runs a restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what part of New York does the Boyce family live?

2. What does Deighton do after the incident at the mattress factory?

3. What does Deighton have when he finally arrives home after cashing the land sale check?

4. How old is Selina at the opening of the book?

5. What happens when Deighton tries to apply for an accounting job?

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