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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. How does May Alice's mother find out that May Alice is pregnant?
(a) Harold tells her.
(b) She does not see blood in her underwear anymore.
(c) She overhears May Alice talking to Ursa.
(d) May Alice comes to her for help.

2. What is Mutt's last name?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Foley.
(c) Cooper.
(d) Smith.

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

4. Where does Jeffrene tell Ursa Cat works at?
(a) The dog kennel.
(b) The fabric shop.
(c) The Wax Works.
(d) The Lumber mill.

5. Where does Jeffrene work?
(a) The Spider.
(b) Happy's.
(c) The Narcotics hospital.
(d) Mr. Deak's store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ursa say about hate and desire?

2. What happened to Cat while she was working?

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

4. In what city does the Melrose woman commit suicide?

5. How old is Ursa at the beginning of Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mutt ask Ursa when they reunite at Happy's? What is Ursa's response?

3. 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?

4. Where does Mutt say he has been working? Why did he leave? Where is he working now?

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

6. What does Ursa's mother say that she learned from her last visit with Ursa's father? What does she say about relationships?

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

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

9. When Ursa sees Jeffrene in the street, what is different about her? Where does Jeffrene work?

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

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