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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 Ursa's mother say Mr. Floyd keeps asking her to do?
(a) Marry her.
(b) Make him preserves.
(c) Go out on a date with him.
(d) Move in with him.

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

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

4. 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.

5. When Ursa is with Mutt at the end of the novel, what does she realize about Great Gram and Corregidora?
(a) Corregidora hated her Great Gram.
(b) Great Gram loved Corregidora.
(c) Corregidora loved Great Gram.
(d) Gram must have satisfied something sexual with Corregidora.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompts Ursa's mother to follow Ursa's father to his apartment?

2. Whom is May Alice sleeping with?

3. What is the name of the man who cuts hair in the town that Ursa's mother lives in?

4. Where do May Alice and her mother eventually move?

5. Who owns the general store in the town that Ursa's mother lives in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How much older is Ursa's childhood friend, Mary Alice, than Ursa? What does she tell Ursa about, which she calls "bleeding?"

3. Where does Ursa's mother catch her singing? What is her reaction to seeing Ursa sing?

4. How does Ursa know that Mutt likes her when he comes to see her sing at Happy's? What does he tell her about Happy's?

5. What is the name of the boy that Mary Alice begins to have sex with? What does Mary Alice tell Ursa when Ursa says she should stop?

6. When does Ursa's mother see Ursa's father for the last time? How does he treat her?

7. Whom does Ursa occasionally see in the street? How does Ursa become a free woman?

8. What scares Ursa into thinking that she may be pregnant? How does she try to get rid of her "baby"?

9. After Ursa's father finds out Ursa's mother is pregnant, what does he do? What does he do after that?

10. How does Ursa think telling the story of her father will help her mother? What does Ursa think about her own relationship with men?

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