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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are the children at Miss Thompson's hungry?
(a) Because they do not have a mother.
(b) Because they refused to beg for food.
(c) Because their mother Is out at a party.
(d) Because they do not know how to cook.

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

4. What is the relationship between Selina and Beryl?
(a) Best friends.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Mother and daughter.

5. In Book 3, when she attends the wedding, which of the following does Selina mentally picture herself as being in relation to the bow on her head?
(a) A queen with a crown.
(b) A unicorn with his horn.
(c) Holding up the world at last.
(d) Athena in her flowing gowns.

6. What is one of the main issues that the Boyce family faces?
(a) Floods.
(b) Racism.
(c) Fire.
(d) Hunger.

7. 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 knew that girls would never get married if they did not have knowledge about sex.
(c) Because they thought that girls were evil.
(d) Because they wanted to scare the girls.

8. What is the relationship between Mary and Maritze?
(a) Old lady and her nurse.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Roommates.
(d) Mother and daughter.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After accounting, what does Deighton decide to do for a living?

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

3. In Book 1, Chapter 3, what is Deighton's latest idea for making money?

4. With whom does Selina dance at the wedding?

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

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