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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What physical characteristic does Ursa's mother say that Ursa has in common with her father?
(a) Red hair.
(b) Straight teeth.
(c) Long legs.
(d) Dark skin.

2. Finish the line: "He made them make love to anyone, so that they ______."
(a) Couldn't leave him.
(b) Couldn't love anyone.
(c) Hated everyone else.
(d) Wouldn't feel alone.

3. Who is Mr. Floyd?
(a) The town doctor.
(b) The man who owns the funeral parlor.
(c) The man who owns the hardware store.
(d) The man who lives across from Ursa's mother.

4. In what city does the Melrose woman commit suicide?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Versailles.
(c) Bracktown.
(d) Macomb.

5. What does Ursa bring her mother when she comes to visit her?
(a) Avocadoes.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Pictures.

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

7. What ingredient do Grandma and Mama send Ursa to the store to get when she is little?
(a) Cornmeal.
(b) Milk.
(c) Flour.
(d) Eggs.

8. What town does Ursa's mother live in?
(a) Madison.
(b) Coaltown.
(c) Macomb.
(d) Bracktown.

9. After May Alice finds out she is pregnant, what does she want Ursa to tell Harold for her?
(a) Sorry.
(b) I need money.
(c) We can make a life together.
(d) I hate you.

10. Where does Ursa's father live when Ursa's mother goes to see him for the last time?
(a) Macomb.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Bracktown.
(d) Cincinnati.

11. When Ursa is with Mutt at the end of the novel, what does she realize about Great Gram and Corregidora?
(a) Gram must have satisfied something sexual with Corregidora.
(b) Great Gram loved Corregidora.
(c) Corregidora loved Great Gram.
(d) Corregidora hated her Great Gram.

12. What does Ursa's father call her mother?
(a) Correy.
(b) Woman.
(c) Lil woman.
(d) Sweetie.

13. When May Alice's mother gets her test results back from the doctor's, what does she do to May Alice?
(a) Takes her to boarding school.
(b) Slaps her.
(c) Hugs her.
(d) Cries with her.

14. When May Alice finds out she is pregnant, where do she and Ursa go?
(a) To tell her mother right away.
(b) To sit in the wheat field.
(c) To another town.
(d) To the doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ursa reunites with Mutt, what does he ask her?

2. Where does Jeffrene work?

3. What happens to let Ursa's mother out of the conversation with Ursa's father during their first time talking?

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

5. What is the name of the doctor that May Alice's mother takes her to?

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