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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is not in the audience at Selina's dance recital?
(a) Clive or her family.
(b) Clive.
(c) Clive's mother.
(d) Ina.

3. What does Silla think about Father Peace?
(a) That he is abusing the women in white.
(b) That life is not to be found in him.
(c) That he is a good influence on Deighton.
(d) That he is a crook.

4. How does Selina react when one of her friends confronts her about her relationship with Clive?
(a) She denies that she even knows him.
(b) She acknowledges that they are dating.
(c) She breaks down and cries.
(d) She says that they are just friends.

5. In Book 4, Chapter 6, how does Selina feel when Clive leaves to pick up his mother?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Abandoned.
(d) Sorry.

6. What does Clive say about mothers?
(a) That they are stupid.
(b) That they never want to cut the umbilical cord.
(c) That they have no patience for art.
(d) That they are crazy.

7. Which of the following does Ina state that she does not want?
(a) An elaborate dress.
(b) A fancy wedding.
(c) A birthday party.
(d) A new boarder.

8. In Book 4, which of the of the following does Ina declare to care more about than boys?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Going to college.
(c) School.
(d) Church.

9. Which of the following is Selina warned not to do by Clive?
(a) Become Bohemian.
(b) Learn to dance.
(c) Quit school.
(d) Go away.

10. In Book 4, which of the following does Selina notice when comparing herself to the other girls at the party?
(a) That she is smarter than all of them.
(b) That she lacks all ambition.
(c) That she looks like a boy.
(d) That she is very thin and sad.

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

12. What does Selina do at the recital?
(a) She performs a dance about the cycle of life.
(b) She performs a very modern jazz number.
(c) She dances a waltz.
(d) She performs a song and dance from a Broadway show.

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

14. How does Selina display her grief for her father?
(a) By eating only crackers.
(b) By living in the dark.
(c) By wearing black.
(d) By avoiding other people.

15. At the end of Book 3, what does Silla do when she realizes that Deighton will not be returning?
(a) She turns him in as an illegal immigrant.
(b) She orders Selina to never visit her father again.
(c) She moves to another state with her daughters.
(d) She tries to kill him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clive do a lot?

2. After Deighton dies, what happens when Selina dreams about boys?

3. Which of the following dreams does Silla realize in Book 4?

4. Which of the following does Silla think that Miss Mary will not do?

5. Whom of the following does the author indicate that she has been made to feel like when referring to the hard future that Selina has faced?

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