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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. What does Ursa say the blues do for her?
(a) It helps her keep men away.
(b) It makes her sadness go away.
(c) It helps explain what she cannot explain.
(d) It makes her feel pain easier.

2. Finish the line: "I wanted to come back home to my own bed and not ______."
(a) Be made fool of.
(b) Hate the man next to me.
(c) Have to pretend.
(d) Feel undeserving of love.

3. What does Tadpole say happened to his family's land?
(a) It was taken and the documentation burned.
(b) It was the sight of an Indian burial ground, and haunted.
(c) It was bought by the city so they moved.
(d) It was infertile, so they moved.

4. What does Ursa's mother think about her singing?
(a) She thinks it is the devil's music.
(b) She wishes Ursa went professional.
(c) She does not speak to Ursa anymore because of it.
(d) She strongly supports Ursa.

5. What does Max do one time that makes Ursa uncomfortable?
(a) Tells her to wear a sexier dress.
(b) Makes a pass at her.
(c) Asks her about her operation.
(d) Asks her to sing for him personally.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the witness at Tadpole and Ursa's wedding?

3. After abolition, what did most of Corregidora's women do?

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

5. In Ursa's dream, who is between her legs?

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