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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 does Tadpole say his father did whenever he saved money?
(a) Bought land.
(b) Bought his children new shoes.
(c) Put it in the bank.
(d) Bought pretty things for his mother.

2. In Ursa's dream, who is between her legs?
(a) Corregidora.
(b) A baby.
(c) Mutt.
(d) Tadpole.

3. When Ursa and Sal are talking for the first time, what does Sal drink?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) A Coke.
(c) A beer.
(d) Wine.

4. What does Ursa say about roots when Tadpole talks to Cat?
(a) You cannot sew them back on.
(b) You always carry them with you.
(c) You cannot deny them.
(d) They die quickly and without warning.

5. Finish the line: "I said if that nigger loved me he wouldnta ______."
(a) Abandoned me like this.
(b) Killed my baby.
(c) Ran off with another woman.
(d) Thrown me down the steps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Cat ask Ursa in regards to her relationship with Tadpole?

2. What does Tadpole feed Ursa when she gets out of the hospital?

3. Where does Ursa say her birthmark is?

4. What does the man between her legs say to Ursa in her dream?

5. What does Mutt's cousin ask Ursa that makes her mad?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Corregidora? How is Ursa related to him?

3. Who is Tadpole with when he fails to pick Ursa up from work? How old is she?

4. When Jeffy comes to sleep in Ursa's room, what does Ursa offer him? How is this offer revoked later in the night?

5. What does Cat tell Ursa about her past? How does their conversation end?

6. Who comes to visit Ursa at Happy's while she is recovering? What does she know about Ursa that Ursa has not told anyone?

7. What is Cat's reaction to Ursa's treatment of Jeffy? What does Ursa think about her treatment of Jeffy?

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

9. What does Mutt want to do on their wedding night? What do they end up doing instead?

10. Why does Mutt not want Ursa to sing at Happy's? What happens when they have an argument over it in the alley?

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