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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What question does Cat ask Ursa in regards to her relationship with Tadpole?
(a) She asks Ursa if he is fulfilling her needs.
(b) She asks if Ursa can give him what he needs.
(c) She asks Ursa if he is much different from Mutt.
(d) She asks Ursa if he is treating her right.

3. What does Tadpole say his father did whenever he saved money?
(a) Bought land.
(b) Bought pretty things for his mother.
(c) Put it in the bank.
(d) Bought his children new shoes.

4. Finish the line: "His hair was so dark and greasy straight that you could a swore he was pure ______."
(a) Devil.
(b) Indian.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Evil.

5. On what condition does Tadpole allow Ursa to start work again?
(a) There is a chair for her to sit on.
(b) She can only sing happy songs.
(c) She can only sing one song per night.
(d) She can only sing in the daytime.

6. Why was Ursa embarrassed about the picture of her and Mutt?
(a) She was looking at her and not the two of them.
(b) Mutt was holding her too close in the picture.
(c) She was embarrassed at her smile in the picture.
(d) She felt the picture was vain.

7. When did Ursa say Mutt came into Happy's drunk after they were married?
(a) March 1948.
(b) September 1950.
(c) April 1948.
(d) December 1947.

8. According to Ursa, how did her father die?
(a) Her mother killed him.
(b) He died in a car accident.
(c) A woman poisoned him.
(d) He drank himself to death.

9. How many eggs does Cat cook Ursa for breakfast?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

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

11. Who is Ursa surprised to see while working at the Spider?
(a) Sal.
(b) Jimmy.
(c) Tadpole.
(d) Mutt.

12. With whom does Ursa tell tadpole she could have sung?
(a) Billie Holiday.
(b) Louis Armstrong.
(c) Jack Benny.
(d) Cab Calloway.

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

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

15. What kind of plantation did Ursa's great grandmother work on?
(a) Coffee bean.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Sugar Cane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Corregidora?

2. Whom does Ursa hear Cat speaking to about her in the hallway?

3. What does Ursa promise to Cat the last time she sees her?

4. Who is telling Ursa the story in italics in the first chapter?

5. What does Ursa overhear when she wakes up from her dream at Cat's house?

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