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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Selina refer to Silla as Hitler?
(a) Because she is having an emotional breakdown.
(b) Because she is having bad dreams about the War.
(c) Because she feels like she is in prison.
(d) Because she is angry at her mother for having sent her father away.

3. Which of the following is the reason upon which Clive bases his thoughts that Selina should not socialize with Whites?
(a) They will beat her.
(b) They just want to appear to be non-racist.
(c) They make fun of her.
(d) They are liars and cheaters.

4. Which of the following best states the reason that Selina decides that she has to leave at the end of he book?
(a) She hopes to make a new set of friends elsewhere.
(b) She wants to make lots of money.
(c) She is ashamed about having had sex with Clive.
(d) She is too much like her mother to stay.

5. Why does Deighton want to be called Brother Boyce after he has fallen in with Father Peace?
(a) Because he acknowledges that he is not Selina's real father.
(b) Because Father Peace negates all family ties.
(c) Because Deighton is ashamed of his family.
(d) Because Deighton is really Silla's brother.

6. Which of the following does Father Peace deem to be a dirty word?
(a) God.
(b) Family.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

7. Which of the following causes Selina to run out of the room at the party after the dance recital?
(a) Beryl yelling at everyone and embarrassing Selina.
(b) Being ashamed of her mother.
(c) Mrs. Benton asking her to do a West Indies accent.
(d) Mrs. Benton telling her to clean up the room.

8. Which of the following is Selina singled out to be at the dance recital?
(a) A dancer without a costume.
(b) A singer with a good voice.
(c) A Black dancer.
(d) A high school graduate.

9. Which of the following fields of study does Silla pursue when the defense factories close in Book 4?
(a) Business.
(b) Typing.
(c) Nursing.
(d) History.

10. Where does Selina go with Ina while her parents are arguing about Deighton's involvement with Father Peace?
(a) To church.
(b) To the store.
(c) To Beryl's house.
(d) To the neighbor's house.

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

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

13. Which of the following is Selina reminded about by the women in white associated with Father Peace?
(a) Nuns.
(b) Brides.
(c) Goddesses.
(d) Infants.

14. Which of the following does Selina gain from her experience at the Benton house, and Mrs. Benton's comments to her?
(a) A new friend whom she wants to treasure forever.
(b) A new goal to set for herself.
(c) A better understanding of racism in her world.
(d) A more confident attitude.

15. When Selina and her father leave the place where Father Peace gathers his followers, to whom are they compared by the narrator?
(a) Socrates and Plato.
(b) Oedipus and Antigone.
(c) God and Mary.
(d) Zeus and Athena.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose house do the dancers go to following the performance?

3. In Book 4, which of the following does Selina notice when comparing herself to the other girls at the party?

4. What does Clive's mother do to his paintings?

5. When Silla and Deighton argue after he has become a follower of Father Peace, what huge family burden and loss does Silla blame Deighton for having caused?

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