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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) He needed a coat.
(b) It was raining.
(c) Ursa's mother misses her bus.
(d) He has a present for her.

2. What does Ursa bring her mother when she comes to visit her?
(a) Cookies.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Avocadoes.
(d) Flowers.

3. How long is it since Ursa has seen Mutt at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 22 years.
(d) 10 years.

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

5. What is the necklace that Ursa wears while visiting her mother made from?
(a) Avocado pits.
(b) Trade beads.
(c) Pearls.
(d) Seeds.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In whose place does Ursa always imagine May Alice?

4. What singer does Mutt tell Ursa he likes when they first meet?

5. When Ursa is young, who taunts her from outside her house when Ursa will not let them in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the man who buys Happy's from Tadpole? What does he ask Ursa?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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