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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 church where Julian and Sissy get married?
(a) Mount Zion Unitarian Church.
(b) Little Church of the Nazareth.
(c) The Church of the Ascension.
(d) Little Church of of Positive Thought.

2. What month is it in Chapter 31, 9 months into the marriage of Sissy and Julian?
(a) August.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) September.

3. Where did the Countess first spot Sissy Hankshaw?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Times Square.
(c) The Empire State Building.
(d) Central Park.

4. What does Robbins write is relative to velocity in Chapter 30?
(a) Time.
(b) Love.
(c) Mass.
(d) Space.

5. Where did Sissy grow up?
(a) Hot Springs, AR.
(b) Lexington, KY.
(c) Minisaw, VA.
(d) Richmond, VA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Robbins writes in Chapter 38, "If little else, the brain is an ____ toy."

2. How old is Big Red?

3. What is the title of the Preface to Even Cowgirls Get the Blues?

4. In Chapter 4, Robbins describes Sissy's entrance to the Dakotas as "like a peach basket that had swallowed a" what?

5. In Chapter 34, the author writes, "A book no more contains ____ than a clock contains time."

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the party that Sissy attends in Chapter 11?

2. What is the relationship between Delores and Sissy and the other cowgirls in Part Three of the novel?

3. How is Sissy's view of her "deformity" different from those of the other characters in Chapter 16?

4. What do the cowgirls tell Sissy about the Chink in Part Three?

5. Why does Sissy stay with Julian at his apartment in Chapter 26? Why does she leave?

6. What does Miss Adrian tell Sissy of the problems on the ranch after her arrival in Part Three?

7. How does Sissy react to Madame Zoe? How does Madame Zoe react to Sissy?

8. How does Julian finally reach Sissy in Chapter 28? What does he tell her?

9. Why is Sissy trapped in a dress in Part Two of the novel? What does she do?

10. What interaction takes place between Sissy and Ms. Leonard in the novel?

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