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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ursa's mother offer to make her when she comes to visit?
(a) Scrambled eggs.
(b) Soup.
(c) A sandwich.
(d) Oatmeal.

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

3. What is Ursa's mother doing when Ursa comes to see her?
(a) Sweeping.
(b) Working in the garden.
(c) Washing laundry.
(d) Canning.

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

5. What does Mutt say Jim has told him about Ursa?
(a) That she still needs a man.
(b) That she is old and washed up.
(c) That she still has her voice.
(d) That she has moved on.

6. What is Mutt's last name?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Foley.
(c) Cooper.
(d) Smith.

7. Where does Jeffrene work?
(a) Mr. Deak's store.
(b) The Narcotics hospital.
(c) The Spider.
(d) Happy's.

8. What does she tell Ursa when May Alice is upset when she find out she is pregnant?
(a) She wishes she were a man.
(b) She wants to kill herself.
(c) She wishes Ursa was Harold.
(d) She wishes she were more like Ursa.

9. Where did May Alice say her father lived?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) New York.
(d) New Orleans.

10. What does Max do one time that makes Ursa uncomfortable?
(a) Asks her about her operation.
(b) Asks her to sing for him personally.
(c) Makes a pass at her.
(d) Tells her to wear a sexier dress.

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

12. What is the name of the man who cuts hair in the town that Ursa's mother lives in?
(a) Mr. Costigan.
(b) Mr. Grundy.
(c) Mr. Kiddo.
(d) Mr. Finch.

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

14. What does Ursa's father do when he finds out Ursa's mother is pregnant?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Screams at her.
(c) Marries her.
(d) Asks her to get an abortion.

15. When is the first time that Ursa feels a man and is frightened by it?
(a) At a school dance.
(b) With Mutt.
(c) At Happy's.
(d) In middle school.

Short Answer Questions

1. After May Alice finds out she is pregnant, what does she want Ursa to tell Harold for her?

2. What does Ursa bring her mother when she comes to visit her?

3. What did Mutt work with that he got tired of, prompting him to come back to Bracktown?

4. What did the old man tell the slave who was running away to rub on his feet so that the dogs couldn't track him?

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

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