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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 college course does Li'l Bit tell her family about?
(a) Biology.
(b) Sociology of family.
(c) Behavioral psychology.
(d) Shakespeare.

2. Where does Li'l Bit and Peck have a celebration dinner at in 1968?
(a) A fancy restaurant in Baltimore.
(b) At his home.
(c) An elegant New York restaurant.
(d) An inn on the Eastern shore.

3. What does the parking lot overlook?
(a) The Department of Agriculture office.
(b) Li'l Bit's school.
(c) Peck's home.
(d) The Beltsville Agricultural Farms.

4. Who participates in the scene with three generations at the kitchen table?
(a) BB, Peck, Grandfather.
(b) Li'l Bit, Peck, Grandfather.
(c) Li'l Bit, Aunt Mary, Grandmother.
(d) Li'l Bit, Mother, Grandmother.

5. Li'l Bit becomes embarrassed when family members talk and joke about her breasts. Who tries to change the subject?
(a) Mother.
(b) B.B.
(c) Aunt Mary.
(d) Peck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the night of the first scene make a middle-aged man with a mortgage feel like?

2. What is serious business to Peck?

3. In the middle of the Men, Sex, and Women scene, there is a temporary time shift to what year?

4. What time of day and season is it when the first scene begins?

5. How old is Li'l Bit in the first scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Greg, the boy who asks Li'l Bit to dance.

2. Peck talks Li'l Bit into lying beside him in the bed, promising nothing happens. Li'l Bit agrees. How does this make her feel?

3. At age 11, can Li'l Bit actually drive?

4. How does Li'l Bit get her name?

5. Grandma marries Big Papa as a child bride at age fourteen. What does she still believe in?

6. Why is the mother concerned about her 11 year old daughter?

7. What does Li'l Bit tell her grandfather happens to him when he dies?

8. What is Li'l Bit's plan to keep Peck from drinking?

9. Describe the positioning on Li'l Bit and Peck in the first scene.

10. Describe how Li'l Bit's family comes up with nicknames.

(see the answer keys)

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