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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. When May Alice finds out she is pregnant, where do she and Ursa go?
(a) To sit in the wheat field.
(b) To the doctor.
(c) To tell her mother right away.
(d) To another town.

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

3. Where does Tadpole move when he leaves Bracktown?
(a) Chicago.
(b) France.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Detroit.

4. Where does the drunken man at the Spider work with whom Ursa sits down and talks to?
(a) Happy's.
(b) The Drake.
(c) Snapper's.
(d) Preston's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mutt say to Ursa at the end of the novel?

2. What is Mutt's last name?

3. When Ursa reunites with Mutt, what does he ask her?

4. What does Ursa's mother say about Ursa's necklace during her visit?

5. What does Max Monroe do at the Spider?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mutt say to Ursa at the end of the novel? What is Ursa's response?

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

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

4. Who comes in to warn Ursa that Mutt is back in town? What is Ursa's reaction to this bit of news?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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