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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ursa dream while she is staying at Cat's place?
(a) That she is a famous singer.
(b) That Mutt finds her.
(c) That Tadpole comes and saves her.
(d) That she is pregnant.

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

3. What is the name of the man in the car who tries to pick Ursa up?
(a) Urban Jones.
(b) Giles Harvey.
(c) Uri Jacobs.
(d) Mike Jones.

4. Who is the author of Corregidora?
(a) Gayl Simmons.
(b) Gayl Jones.
(c) Gayl Smith.
(d) Gayl Danticat.

5. What medical procedure does Ursa have to undergo at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Hysterectomy.
(b) Heart surgery.
(c) Brain surgery.
(d) Mastectomy.

6. What kinds of pills does the doctor prescribe Ursa when she visits him a second time?
(a) Vitamin D pills.
(b) Pain pills.
(c) Sleeping pills.
(d) Iron pills.

7. What does Tadpole tell Ursa that she cannot say back?
(a) I love you.
(b) You are my one and only.
(c) I have never loved another.
(d) Goodbye.

8. What does Tadpole say to Ursa when she asks him whether she should take the job at the Spider?
(a) Ain't none of my business.
(b) It ain't my voice.
(c) You my woman.
(d) You your own woman.

9. What consequence did the plantation wife face because of her actions with her white boss?
(a) She and her husband ran away before they could be punished.
(b) She and her husband were sent back to Africa.
(c) She and her husband were killed.
(d) She and her husband were sold to another plantation.

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

11. Where is Ursa when the man tries to pick her up?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Detroit.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Macomb.

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

13. What does Tadpole do to Mutt after Ursa is hospitalized?
(a) Runs him out of town.
(b) Beats him up.
(c) Bans him from Happy's.
(d) Kills him.

14. What did the wife do to the white man who was raping her in the story about the black couple on the plantation?
(a) She cut off his penis.
(b) She screamed until someone came.
(c) She did nothing, so that there were no repercussions.
(d) She threatened to kill him if he did not leave her alone.

15. 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 makes her feel pain easier.
(d) It helps explain what she cannot explain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is at Cat's place when Ursa goes to stay there?

2. What does Cat make Ursa for dinner when she is staying there?

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

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

5. What does Corregidora call his favorite girl?

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