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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 Silla's friend, Florrie do to Selina that upsets her?
(a) Touches her breast.
(b) Hits her.
(c) Tells her that she is ugly.
(d) Makes fun of her.

2. What does Selina's mother bring home from work for Selina?
(a) Extra work.
(b) A letter.
(c) Hand-me down clothes.
(d) Candy.

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

4. Who does Deighton see on his way to visit his mistress?
(a) His mother.
(b) The police.
(c) Miss Mary.
(d) Yearwood.

5. In Book 3, how does Silla carry out her plan to get money for a house?
(a) She divorces her husband and marries another man.
(b) She forces her husband to sell the land.
(c) She forges her husband's signature and writes to his sister.
(d) She kills her husband and inherits the land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between Suggie and Selina?

2. What does Beryl tell Selina will happen to her if she does not menstruate by the time that she turns 20 years of age?

3. Who is Father Peace?

4. What sets Miss Mary apart from the other tenants?

5. What does Selina decide to do about her mother's plan to sell her father's land?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the clothes that Selina, Silla, and Ina wear to the wedding of 'Gupta Steed's daughter reflect their positions in the family?

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

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

4. Deighton starts to believe in a cult-like religion. Which cult-like religion is it?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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