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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, Pages 69 through 96.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tadpole feed Ursa when she gets out of the hospital?
(a) A hamburger.
(b) Vegetable soup.
(c) A sandwich.
(d) Fried chicken.

2. Who performs at Happy's while Ursa is out?
(a) Don Pashe's band.
(b) Eddy Pace's group.
(c) Sal Cooper.
(d) Vivian.

3. What is Ursa's drink of choice throughout the novel?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Beer.
(c) Wine.
(d) Coke.

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

5. Why does Ursa throw Jeffy out of the bed they are sharing?
(a) Jeffy snores too loud.
(b) It is too hot to share a bed.
(c) Jeffy tries to feel Ursa up.
(d) Jeffy tries to smother Ursa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ursa when the man tries to pick her up?

2. What consequence did the plantation wife face because of her actions with her white boss?

3. Finish the line: "I said if that nigger loved me he wouldnta ______."

4. Who is Corregidora?

5. Where does Ursa say her birthmark is?

(see the answer key)

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