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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 prompts Ursa's mother to follow Ursa's father to his apartment?
(a) It was raining.
(b) He has a present for her.
(c) Ursa's mother misses her bus.
(d) He needed a coat.

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

3. Where does Mutt say he has a job?
(a) The apple orchard.
(b) Greenwood cemetery.
(c) In a band.
(d) At the sawmill.

4. What do Ursa and May Alice call her period?
(a) Bleeding.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Downtime.
(d) River.

5. Who is embarrassing Ursa while she works at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Tadpole.
(b) Mutt.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Vivian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the Melrose girl who committed suicide?

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

3. What does Max do one time that makes Ursa uncomfortable?

4. Where does Ursa's father live when Ursa's mother goes to see him for the last time?

5. Where does the drunken man at the Spider work with whom Ursa sits down and talks to?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Ursa comes to visit her mother, what is her mother doing? Why is she doing this?

2. Which two characters become intertwined in Ursa's memory? How does Ursa explain this?

3. What finally prompts Ursa's father to speak to Ursa's mother? What do they do together while they are getting to know one another?

4. How many pregnancy scares does Mary Alice have? When she actually becomes pregnant, what does she tell Ursa?

5. When Mutt and Ursa go back to the drake together, what does Ursa do to Mutt? How is this different from their relationship before?

6. How old was the Melrose woman who committed suicide? Why does the Melrose woman's father investigate her case further?

7. When Mutt and Ursa are at a dance together, what does Mutt do that embarrasses Ursa? What does she say to him during this conflict?

8. What was the name of Ursa's father? Where did he and Ursa's mother meet?

9. How did Corregidora feel about great-gram seeing black men? What does he say about this?

10. What does Jeffrene tell Ursa about Cat? What does she ask of Ursa?

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