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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Selina feel that she can do at the end of the book?
(a) Dance better than anyone else.
(b) Forget all about Clive.
(c) Face prejudice and be able to overcome it.
(d) Find a man who will marry her and take her away.

2. Which of the following career types does Silla want Selina to pursue after college?
(a) Educational.
(b) Legal.
(c) Medical.
(d) Political.

3. How dowa Selina plan to change things for Clive?
(a) She wanta to go away where he can paint freely.
(b) She wants to sell his paintings and help him get rich.
(c) She wants to enroll Clive in college.
(d) She wants to get married so that his mother will not be so bossy.

4. What happened to Miss Thompson years before, during her youth?
(a) She had gotten married and her foot had been lost in a farm accident.
(b) She had almost been raped and part of her foot had been chopped off.
(c) She had suffered from frostbite and the doctor had amputated her toes.
(d) She had been raped and her foot had been chopped off.

5. In Chapter 10 of Book 4, which of the following does Clive's mother do that annoys Selina?
(a) She yells and states that Selina is not a good match for Clive.
(b) She fakes a medical emergency.
(c) She throws Selina out of their house.
(d) She helps Selina feel better.

6. Which of the following dreams does Silla realize in Book 4?
(a) Marrying a rich man.
(b) Moving to a new neighborhood.
(c) Seeing her daughter get married.
(d) Owning her own house.

7. How does Selina plan to get money for her plan to improve Clive's life?
(a) By taking care of White people's children.
(b) By selling Clive's paintings.
(c) Through a scholarship from the Association.
(d) By dropping out of school to work.

8. In Book 4, whom of the following does Selina spend a lot of time with despite that person having lost the ability to talk?
(a) Suggie.
(b) Ina.
(c) Miss Mary.
(d) Beryl.

9. Upon her eviction, which of the following does Suggie give to Selina?
(a) A bottle of rum.
(b) A bottle of perfume.
(c) A copy of her favorite book.
(d) Her new address.

10. In what way does Clive resemble Deighton?
(a) By lounging on the sofa.
(b) By having a mistress.
(c) By eating too much.
(d) By yelling at Selina.

11. What does Mrs. Benton say about Selina?
(a) That she is not allowed in her home.
(b) That she is the best dancer who she has ever seen.
(c) That she is well-spoken for a Negro.
(d) That she is too poor to befriend her daughter.

12. What does Selina do at her home after leaving Clive's apartment for the last time?
(a) She cries, and tells her family the whole story.
(b) She tells her family all about the dance that she has performed.
(c) She puts on a brave face and does not share her pain with anyone.
(d) She cries, but will not tell her family anything.

13. What do Miss Mary and Silla have in common?
(a) They both want to marry rich men.
(b) They two of them are afraid to die.
(c) They both work hard, but have driven their daughters away.
(d) They both have miserable lives.

14. What changes in Selina's physical appearance are based on her grief over her father's death?
(a) She pulls all her hair out.
(b) She bites her fingernails to the quick.
(c) She wastes away into a stick figure.
(d) She scratches her skin until she bled.

15. Whom of the following does Father Peace call to sit by him when Selina first visits him?
(a) Deighton.
(b) Selina.
(c) All the women.
(d) Silla.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Selina do at the recital?

2. Which of the following reasons serves as the basis for Selina's decision to go to the Association meeting?

3. What does Clive do during the War?

4. Which of the following is the reason upon which Clive bases his thoughts that Selina should not socialize with Whites?

5. What does Selina realize when she sees the manner in which Mrs. Benton treats her daughter?

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