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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does May Alice's mother find out that May Alice is pregnant?
(a) She overhears May Alice talking to Ursa.
(b) Harold tells her.
(c) She does not see blood in her underwear anymore.
(d) May Alice comes to her for help.

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

4. In Ursa's story about the black man in the car trying to pick her up, who else is in the car?
(a) Mutt.
(b) Mary Alice.
(c) Two white girls and another man.
(d) Ursa's mother.

5. In Ursa's dream, how does she say she gives birth?
(a) Without struggle.
(b) With the help of Corregidora.
(c) Without caring about the baby.
(d) With the help of Mutt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Mutt's cousin?

2. What makes Ursa decide to go back to Tadpole's place?

3. What does the man between her legs say to Ursa in her dream?

4. Why does Cat not let anyone sleep on the couch?

5. Where did May Alice say her father lived?

(see the answer key)

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