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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tadpole's last name?
(a) MacGunner.
(b) McGee.
(c) McCormick.
(d) McSweeney.

2. Why does Cat not let anyone sleep on the couch?
(a) The couch is infested with lice.
(b) The cat loves the couch.
(c) Because it is the only piece of nice furniture.
(d) Sleeping on the couch is unrefined.

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

4. Who is Corregidora?
(a) A Portuguese plantation owner.
(b) A Cuban plantation owner.
(c) A Brazilian slave owner.
(d) A Spanish sea captain.

5. In Ursa's story about the black man in the car trying to pick her up, who else is in the car?
(a) Ursa's mother.
(b) Two white girls and another man.
(c) Mutt.
(d) Mary Alice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man in the car who tries to pick Ursa up?

2. Where does Ursa say her birthmark is?

3. What does Cat make Ursa for dinner when she is staying there?

4. What does Tadpole tell Ursa that she cannot say back?

5. How many eggs does Cat cook Ursa for breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tadpole say about it when Ursa is offered a job at the Spider? Whom does Ursa say he can hire in her place?

2. For whom does the doctor mistake Tadpole? What does Ursa tell him after this?

3. When Cat comes to visit Ursa, what question does she plant in Ursa's mind? What is Ursa's response to this?

4. What does Ursa do during breakfast at Cat's? What does Cat say about this?

5. While Ursa is staying at Cat's place, what does Cat tell Ursa about Tadpole? What does she say about Mutt?

6. What does Tadpole say about where his father is? What does Ursa tell Tadpole about her father?

7. What does Tadpole want Ursa to tell him but will not during their argument? What does he say when he is leaving the room?

8. Whom does Tadpole ask to be a witness at his wedding? Why is Ursa uncomfortable with this?

9. What does Ursa remember asking Mutt about wives? What was Mutt's response to this question?

10. Whom does Ursa's grandmother say Corregidora resembles? Why would she be afraid to tell him this?

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