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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter I, Pages 37 through 68.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tadpole get his name?
(a) He always messed with tadpole holes as a child.
(b) He would pretend he was a frog as a child.
(c) He is an avid fisherman.
(d) He loves to swim.

2. What does Mutt do to Ursa in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Kills a man who is interested in her.
(b) Pushes her down stairs during an argument.
(c) Pulls her hair out when she will not listen to him.
(d) Proposes to her.

3. What does Ursa overhear when she wakes up from her dream at Cat's house?
(a) Cat and Jeffy arguing.
(b) Sal and Vivian screaming.
(c) Mutt and Tadpole fighting.
(d) Tadpole and Cat laughing.

4. 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.

5. What makes Ursa decide to go back to Tadpole's place?
(a) Jeffy threatens to kill her in her sleep.
(b) Cat asks her to run away with her and Jeffy.
(c) Ursa and Cat get into an argument.
(d) She knows Cat and Jeffy are in a relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the boy that Ursa plays doctor with when she was a child?

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

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

4. What does Mutt's cousin ask Ursa that makes her mad?

5. Who is Corregidora?

(see the answer key)

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