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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 ingredient do Grandma and Mama send Ursa to the store to get when she is little?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Milk.
(c) Flour.
(d) Cornmeal.

2. What does she tell Ursa when May Alice is upset when she find out she is pregnant?
(a) She wishes she were a man.
(b) She wishes Ursa was Harold.
(c) She wants to kill herself.
(d) She wishes she were more like Ursa.

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

4. What does Max Monroe do at the Spider?
(a) Tends Bar.
(b) Owns the place.
(c) Max is a bouncer.
(d) Plays piano.

5. What does Jeffrene ask Ursa to do during the last time they talk to one another?
(a) Go and see Cat.
(b) Go back to Mutt.
(c) Admit that she is a lesbian.
(d) Lend her money.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the first time that Ursa feels a man and is frightened by it?

2. Where does Ursa hear about the Melrose woman's suicide?

3. What physical characteristic does Ursa's mother say that Ursa has in common with her father?

4. Who comes to warn Ursa that Mutt is back in town?

5. Whom is May Alice sleeping with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ursa's mother do to earn a living? How does Ursa feel about this?

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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