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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tadpole and Ursa do on their wedding night instead of going out?
(a) Tadpole closes Happy's and they dance all night.
(b) Ursa sings to Tadpole.
(c) Ursa does a show at Happy's.
(d) Tadpole sings Ursa to sleep.

2. When Ursa visits May Alice in the hospital, what does May Alice say that makes Ursa leave?
(a) She tells her they are not friends anymore.
(b) She starts talking about blood.
(c) She calls her a baby.
(d) She accuses her of seeing Harold behind her back.

3. How long does Ursa stay in the Drake before Tadpole comes to see her after she finds Tadpole cheating on her?
(a) Two days.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) One week.

4. What consequence did the plantation wife face because of her actions with her white boss?
(a) She and her husband were sent back to Africa.
(b) She and her husband were sold to another plantation.
(c) She and her husband were killed.
(d) She and her husband ran away before they could be punished.

5. In what city does the Melrose woman commit suicide?
(a) Macomb.
(b) Bracktown.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Versailles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tadpole say his father did whenever he saved money?

2. In Ursa's story about the black man in the car trying to pick her up, who else is in the car?

3. What does Ursa dream while she is staying at Cat's place?

4. What does Tadpole say to Ursa when she asks him whether she should take the job at the Spider?

5. In whose place does Ursa always imagine May Alice?

(see the answer key)

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