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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Pages 97 through 132.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Ursa embarrassed about the picture of her and Mutt?
(a) She was embarrassed at her smile in the picture.
(b) Mutt was holding her too close in the picture.
(c) She was looking at her and not the two of them.
(d) She felt the picture was vain.

2. What does Ursa bring her mother when she comes to visit her?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Avocadoes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Cookies.

3. In Ursa's dream, who is between her legs?
(a) Tadpole.
(b) A baby.
(c) Corregidora.
(d) Mutt.

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) Ursa's mother.
(c) Two white girls and another man.
(d) Mary Alice.

5. How does Ursa's father treat her mother when they meet for the last time?
(a) He beats her.
(b) He makes love to her.
(c) He cries and says he is sorry.
(d) He is indifferent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Ursa's dream, how does she say she gives birth?

2. What did the wife do to the white man who was raping her in the story about the black couple on the plantation?

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

4. What is the name of the man who cuts hair in the town that Ursa's mother lives in?

5. What does Ursa say about roots when Tadpole talks to Cat?

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