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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Ursa hear about the Melrose woman's suicide?
(a) Happy's.
(b) The Spider.
(c) Deak's store.
(d) Cat's house.

2. What is the necklace that Ursa wears while visiting her mother made from?
(a) Pearls.
(b) Avocado pits.
(c) Seeds.
(d) Trade beads.

3. What does Ursa say about hate and desire?
(a) They are complete opposites.
(b) One holds the other up.
(c) They are two humps on the same camel.
(d) One mirrors the other.

4. What prompts Ursa's father to talk to her mother for the first time?
(a) Ursa's father is fired in front of her.
(b) Ursa's mother comes in for dinner and lunch the same day.
(c) Ursa's mother has a bloody nose.
(d) Ursa's mother calls him over.

5. How does May Alice behave while the doctor examines her?
(a) She is stoic throughout the experience.
(b) She rolls her eyes the whole time.
(c) She cries the entire time.
(d) She yells at him the entire time.

6. What does Ursa say about her mother and men?
(a) She has never seen her with a man.
(b) Men think of her mother as an uncatchable fish.
(c) Her mother never laid eyes on a man.
(d) Her mother is a man-eater.

7. What singer does Mutt tell Ursa he likes when they first meet?
(a) Ray Charles.
(b) Judy Garland.
(c) Della Reese.
(d) Dionne Warwick.

8. What does Ursa say back to Mutt at the end of the novel?
(a) She will always hate Mutt.
(b) She loves Mutt.
(c) She could kill Mutt and not feel a thing.
(d) She does not want a man that would hurt her.

9. What does Ursa's mother say about Ursa's necklace during her visit?
(a) It will attract men.
(b) It is too flashy.
(c) It makes her look like a gypsy.
(d) It is beautiful.

10. What is the name of Ursa's father?
(a) Martin.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Jacob.
(d) John.

11. When Ursa visits May Alice in the hospital, what does May Alice say that makes Ursa leave?
(a) She accuses her of seeing Harold behind her back.
(b) She starts talking about blood.
(c) She calls her a baby.
(d) She tells her they are not friends anymore.

12. When Ursa reunites with Mutt, what does he ask her?
(a) To leave him alone.
(b) To come back to him.
(c) To tell him if she was pregnant when she had the accident.
(d) To marry him.

13. When Mutt and Ursa go back to the Drake together, what does Ursa do?
(a) She is intimate with Mutt.
(b) Fight.
(c) Take a bath.
(d) Sleep in each other's arms.

14. Where does Tadpole move when he leaves Bracktown?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) France.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Chicago.

15. What do Ursa and May Alice call her period?
(a) Bleeding.
(b) Monthly.
(c) River.
(d) Downtime.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the first place Ursa sang in public?

2. What does Jeffrene ask Ursa to do during the last time they talk to one another?

3. What does Ursa's mother say Mr. Floyd keeps asking her to do?

4. What town does Ursa's mother live in?

5. Where does Mutt say he has a job?

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