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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lily doing at the beginning of Act One, Scene 3?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Smoking a cigarette.
(c) Dancing to music.
(d) Straightening Ermina’s hair with a hot comb.

2. What is Ernestine doing at the beginning of Act One, Scene 3?
(a) Listening to the radio.
(b) Working on her graduation dress.
(c) Reading a magazine.
(d) Hemming her father's pants.

3. Why does Ernestine say everything is perfect in the movies?
(a) Because she sees only perfect movies.
(b) Because of the filmmakers' technical skill.
(c) The actors are white.
(d) The actors are Black.

4. What movie star does Lily compare Ernestine to?
(a) Joan Crawford.
(b) Marilyn Monroe.
(c) Marlene Dietrich.
(d) Bette Davis.

5. What does Godfrey repeatedly tell Ernestine and Ermina to do in Act One, Scene 4?
(a) Turn off the radio.
(b) Leave the room.
(c) Straighten their hair.
(d) Apologize.

6. What does Lily tell the girls not the share with their father in Act One, Scene 3?
(a) Her religious beliefs.
(b) Her dating advice.
(c) Her love of dancing.
(d) Her Communist tendencies.

7. What is Ernestine’s news that surprises Godfrey?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is getting married.
(c) She is going to college.
(d) She is graduating from high school.

8. What does Lily tease Ernestine about in Act One, Scene 2?
(a) Her developing body.
(b) Her graduation dress.
(c) Her love of the movies.
(d) Her mother's death.

9. Who does Lily say she hates?
(a) Ermina.
(b) Ernestine.
(c) Father Divine.
(d) Godfrey.

10. Where are Godfrey, Ernestine, and Ermina going in Act One, Scene 4?
(a) To Harlem.
(b) To the bakery.
(c) To Albany.
(d) To the Peace Mission.

11. Why does Lily say she has come to the Crump home?
(a) She promised her mother she would take care of the girls.
(b) She missed the girls.
(c) God told her to visit them.
(d) She was passing through the neighborhood.

12. Why does Ernestine regret not listening to the radio in Act One?
(a) She and Ermina will not have anything to talk about at school.
(b) She will miss her favorite shows.
(c) She will not know all the latest songs.
(d) She will not be abreast of current events.

13. Who does Lily say Ermina looks like?
(a) Ernestine.
(b) Godfrey.
(c) Lily.
(d) Sandra.

14. What does Ernestine say made her father wail?
(a) Evil.
(b) Pain.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Death.

15. What does Father Divine say is a “creation of the ignorant to punish those who are in touch with God” (12)?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lily doing at the beginning of Act One, Scene 2?

2. What is the setting of Act One, Scene 3?

3. Why does Ermina howl in pain in Act One, Scene 3?

4. Why does Godfrey exit in Act One, Scene 2?

5. How much money does the mailman ask for in order to deliver the mail in the mornings?

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