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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 year does the typical family dinner take place?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1972.

2. Who or what is Li'l Bit's constant companion in her dorm room?
(a) Rich man's daughter.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Canadian V.O.
(d) Drugs.

3. According to the mother, a married woman only needs a broom or a rolling pin. What does she prefer?
(a) Cast-iron fry pan.
(b) Spatula.
(c) Rolling pin.
(d) Broom.

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

5. How does Li'l Bit describe the God who judges her grandfather when he dies?
(a) Beautiful black woman in a long white robe.
(b) Fat man who no sense of humor.
(c) Angry white woman in a long black robe.
(d) Small Asian woman reading a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What represents the car in the first scene?

2. When Peck leaves a drunk and sleeping Li'l Bit in the car, what music is playing?

3. Who does Peck take fishing?

4. Which of the Greek chorus speak for Grandmother?

5. What type of car do Li'l Bit and Peck sit in during the first scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peck position Li'l Bit for her first driving lesson?

2. Why does Peck refer to the car as a "she"?

3. What does Li'l Bit get upset about at the photo shoot?

4. The last time Peck is seen alive, he is drinking at a bar after being rejected by Li'l Bit. Li'l Bit sums up the rest of his life at this point. What happens to Peck?

5. 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?

6. How does Big Papa describe his choice of Grandma for a bride.

7. Why does Li'l Bit tell Peck to stop being bad during the first scene?

8. How do Peck and Li'l Bit define Peck being good?

9. What is the mood of the two characters when Peck arrives for Li'l Bit's 18th birthday?

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

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