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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sets Miss Mary apart from the other tenants?
(a) She owns the brownstone.
(b) She has a car.
(c) She is White.
(d) She is Selina's father's employer.

2. Who is not in the Boyce family photograph?
(a) Silla.
(b) Selina.
(c) Ina.
(d) The son.

3. How does Deighton's mistress treat him?
(a) She wants to marry him.
(b) She calls him names.
(c) She wants his money.
(d) She does not judge him.

4. What does Selina see at the park in Book 2?
(a) Babies nursing.
(b) Birds mating.
(c) Lovers displaying affection toward each other.
(d) Her sister with a boy.

5. Where does Silla get a new job in Book 3?
(a) At the bakery.
(b) At the church.
(c) At the hospital.
(d) At a defense factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book 2, Pastorale, what does Selina ask to do with her best friend?

2. What are Deighton's happy news?

3. What does Selina daydream about when her parents fight?

4. How many siblings does Beryl have?

5. Why are the children at Miss Thompson's hungry?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Book 1, why does Selina not want to wear the second-hand clothes that Silla has brought home?

2. How are Silla and Miss Thompson alike?

3. Why does Selina think that babies are born by chopping the mother's stomach open?

4. Miss Thompson's roommate has three little girls, but it is Miss Thompson who cares for them. Why is that?

5. Why does Suggie drink rum and act so promiscuous?

6. Following his work injury, why does Deighton see no point in engaging in physical therapy to enable his injured arm back to full strength?

7. In Book 3, Chapters 1-4, what does Florrie do to Selina that shocks her so much? And why does she do it?

8. In Book 2, Beryl and Selina have a conversation about babies being born. Why do they not know the facts of life?

9. Why does Silla want to sell the land that her husband has inherited in Barbados so badly?

10. How does Deighton respond to the racism that he encounters while applying for accounting jobs?

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