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

2. What does Lily ask for upon arriving in Act One, Scene 2?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) Lace.
(c) A drink.
(d) A cigarette.

3. Why does Ernestine say Godfrey moved the family?
(a) Because he thought Father Divine’s Peace Mission was in Brooklyn.
(b) Because he wanted to get as far away from Pensacola as possible.
(c) Because the cost of living was cheaper there.
(d) Because he wanted the girls to be closer to their Aunt Lily.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What word does Lily like to say?

4. What is the name of the Crump family’s dead mother?

5. Where are Godfrey, Ernestine, and Ermina going in Act One, Scene 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Ernestine and Godfrey say they are not going out?

2. How does Ernestine imagine her apology to the school?

3. Why does Lily say she likes to dress well?

4. What does Godfrey not like about Ernestine and Ermina visiting the Levys?

5. Why does Lily accuse Godfrey of jealousy?

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

7. Why did Godfrey discover Father Divine?

8. Why does Godfrey pass the letter from Father Divine to Ernestine?

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

10. Why does Father Divine give the Crump family nicknames?

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