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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 is the name of the Crump family’s dead mother?
(a) Sandra.
(b) Lily.
(c) Father Divine.
(d) Mrs. Levy.

2. What is the name of the newspaper Godfrey is expecting?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Financial Times.
(d) The New Day.

3. What does Ernestine bring Lily to eat upon Lily's arrival in Act One?
(a) Lemon tarts.
(b) A sandwich.
(c) Cabbage.
(d) Mutton with mint.

4. How did Ermina respond to teasing from the other kids at school?
(a) She got in a fight.
(b) She became depressed.
(c) She started drinking.
(d) She became promiscuous.

5. In Act One, Scene 2, where does Ernestine say Aunt Lily has been?
(a) Pensacola.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Albany.
(d) Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lily doing at the beginning of Act One, Scene 3?

2. What is the race of Father Divine’s wife?

3. Who does Godfrey blame for Ernestine’s trouble at school?

4. Why does Lily tell Ernestine to open the window in Act One, Scene 3?

5. In what time does the opening of the play take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ernestine say the other children in school treat her and her sister Ermina and why?

2. What is Lily’s behavior like at the beginning of Act One, Scene 4?

3. Why does Lily suggest she belongs to the Communist Party?

4. What does Lily say and do to flirt with Godfrey?

5. What are Sundays like in the Crump household?

6. What does Godfrey not like about the neighbors’ radio?

7. Why did Godfrey discover Father Divine?

8. Why does Godfrey say he left Florida?

9. How does Lily describe white women’s physical appearance?

10. Why does Ernestine express surprise that Lily is her mother’s sister?

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