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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who recognizes Ursa in the street when she goes back to her grandmother's funeral?
(a) Corregidora.
(b) Mr. Deak.
(c) Mr. Deak's mother.
(d) Mr. Floyd's mother.

3. What is the name of the girl that Tadpole cheats on Ursa with?
(a) Sal.
(b) Vivian.
(c) Cat.
(d) Lacey.

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

5. Whom is May Alice sleeping with?
(a) Henry.
(b) Hank.
(c) Martin.
(d) Harold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Tadpole feed Ursa when she gets out of the hospital?

3. What prompts Ursa's father to talk to her mother for the first time?

4. In what way does Ursa think her mother telling her the story of her father will help her?

5. What important question does Ursa ask the doctor after Tadpole reminds her to?

(see the answer key)

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