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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 does Selina daydream about when her parents fight?
(a) About being married to a handsome man who is nice.
(b) About being the white child of the former owners of the brownstone.
(c) About being a better mother than her own.
(d) About running away to California.

2. Whose wedding does the family attend in Book 3?
(a) Miss Thompson's wedding.
(b) Beryl's sister's wedding.
(c) Maritze's wedding.
(d) The wedding of 'Gatha Steed's daughter.

3. Which of the following is one of the reasons that Maritze is bitter?
(a) She is too tall.
(b) She is crippled.
(c) She is ugly.
(d) She is illegitimate.

4. What do the guests at the wedding think about Deighton?
(a) That he is a great trumpet player.
(b) That he has done a nice thing.
(c) That he is a foolish husband.
(d) That he is a bad father.

5. What type of job do most immigrant women in the story have?
(a) Doing laundry.
(b) Cleaning houses.
(c) Raising chickens.
(d) Waitressing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Vergie?

2. What is the Barbados island religion called?

3. What does Miss Thompson do for a living?

4. What happens when Deighton tries to apply for an accounting job?

5. When Suggie gives Selina some rum to drink in Book 2, what does she tell Selina that the rum will do to her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do you think that Deighton is seeking out a mistress?

3. How is the issue of racism introduced in Book 1?

4. 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?

5. In Book 1, Chapter 3, why is Maritze so annoyed with Suggie's romantic adventures?

6. In Book 2, Beryl thinks that babies just pop out easily. What misinformation does she have about menstruation?

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

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

9. What is Selina's relationship with her mother like?

10. In Book 3, how does Silla manage to sell Deighton's land out from under him?

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