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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 Birdie's mother discuss with her friends in the basement?
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Forced integration.
(c) Environmental issues.
(d) Religion.

2. Who is Carmen?
(a) Deck's new girlfriend.
(b) Cole's new teacher.
(c) Birdie's best friend in Boston.
(d) Grandma Logan's maid.

3. Where do Sandy and Birdie stay while in upstate New York?
(a) In a small fishing village near the Canadian border.
(b) Woodstock.
(c) In a Motel 6.
(d) The women's commune, Aurora.

4. Why is Deck Lee offended by the interracial couple in Chapter 3?
(a) Because they snub him.
(b) Because they are diluting the black race.
(c) Because they are holding hands in public.
(d) Because they tease him about Birdie and Cole.

5. What item does Cole wear at the end of Chapter 5 as she leaves Birdie a present?
(a) Her mother's Egyptian necklace.
(b) A bathrobe.
(c) Her school shirt.
(d) An African turban.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in the encyclopedia is the snapshot placed?

2. Which character does Walter Marsh remind Birdie of?

3. What type of paper is used to wrap Birdie's gift?

4. What do Cole and Birdie learn from an Ebony magazine article?

5. Where is Aunt Dot moving to in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Birdie Lee.

2. How does Deck begin to view interracial couples after he and Sandy separate?

3. Where do Sandy and Birdie live in the four years following Sandy's flight from the FBI?

4. Describe Sandy's encounter with Redbone in Chapter 4.

5. What is Deck's theory about ethnic restaurants?

6. How is Birdie schooled while she and Sandy are on the road?

7. Why doesn't Sandy think that Birdie is really "passing" as white?

8. Why does Cole give Birdie Golliwog?

9. Describe Sandy and Birdie's new identities.

10. Once Sandy decides to end her transient wanderings, where do she and Birdie settle down?

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