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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. Who is Vergie?
(a) A debt collector.
(b) A nun.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A neighbor.
2. What does Selina decide to do about her mother's plan to sell her father's land?
(a) Go to the factory and talk to her mother.
(b) Tell the priest so that he will convince her mother to stop.
(c) Tell her father before her mother can do anything.
(d) Go to the police.
3. What are Deighton's happy news?
(a) That he is buying a house.
(b) That he has inherited land in Barbados.
(c) That he has gotten a job.
(d) That they are about to have a son.
4. What happens when Deighton tries to apply for an accounting job?
(a) He is beaten up.
(b) He panics and does not go.
(c) He encounters racism.
(d) He is hired.
5. What happens to Deighton at the mattress factory?
(a) His arm is injured in the machinery.
(b) He gets fired.
(c) He has a heart attack.
(d) He causes a riot.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following phrase best describes the relationship between Deighton and Silla?
2. With whom does Selina dance at the wedding?
3. What is the relationship between Selina and Beryl?
4. How do others react when Selina tries to tell them about her mother's plan to sell her father's land?
5. What does Suggie like to drink?
Short Essay Questions
1. What wish does Selina make on her 15th birthday; and why does she regret it?
2. What is the main problem in Silla's and Deighton's marriage?
3. How is the issue of racism introduced in Book 1?
4. What is Selina's relationship with her mother like?
5. Why does Silla want to sell the land that her husband has inherited in Barbados so badly?
6. How do the clothes that Selina, Silla, and Ina wear to the wedding of 'Gupta Steed's daughter reflect their positions in the family?
7. In Book 2, Beryl thinks that babies just pop out easily. What misinformation does she have about menstruation?
8. Beryl's father asks Selina about her own father, and then tells her that he is a disgrace. Why does that upset Selina so much?
9. In Book 1, why does Selina not want to wear the second-hand clothes that Silla has brought home?
10. In Book 1, Chapter 3, why does Selina worry about her mother?
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