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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ursa find out about her period when she is young?
(a) She sees bloody sheets and her mother tells her about it.
(b) Her mother warns her about it.
(c) She sees May Alice bleeding.
(d) She gets her period at an early age.

2. Who does Ursa say Mutt is acting like when he "cases a joint?"
(a) Dick Tracy.
(b) Gary Cooper.
(c) James Bond.
(d) Clint Eastwood.

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

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

5. What prompts Ursa's mother to see Ursa's father for the last time?
(a) She reads that he is a rich businessman, and goes to see him.
(b) He sends her money and she goes to return it.
(c) He writes her professing his love for her.
(d) He is in jail and needs her help.

6. How does Ursa's mother react to May Alice's pregnancy?
(a) That May Alice is a slut.
(b) That Ursa can learn from May Alice.
(c) That Ursa should follow her example.
(d) That Ursa shouldn't have anything to do with her.

7. In whose place does Ursa always imagine May Alice?
(a) Cat's place.
(b) Sal Cooper's place.
(c) Vivian's place.
(d) The Melrose woman.

8. What does Ursa's mother do that Ursa wants her to stop doing?
(a) Canning things for people.
(b) Hiding secrets from her.
(c) Working for a white woman.
(d) Living alone.

9. Where was the first place Ursa sang in public?
(a) The Spider.
(b) Johnny's.
(c) Preston's.
(d) Happy's.

10. How does Ursa's father treat her mother when they meet for the last time?
(a) He is indifferent.
(b) He makes love to her.
(c) He cries and says he is sorry.
(d) He beats her.

11. What year is it at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1969.

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

13. What grade was May Alice in when she became sexually active?
(a) Ninth.
(b) Eighth.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Seventh.

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

15. What is the name of the new owner of Happy's after Tadpole sells it?
(a) Bradley Cooper.
(b) Jack White.
(c) Milton Bradley.
(d) Austin Bradley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tadpole move when he leaves Bracktown?

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

3. Finish the line: "He made them make love to anyone, so that they ______."

4. With what does Ursa say her mother was heavy?

5. When May Alice finds out she is pregnant, where do she and Ursa go?

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