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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice protect Dorcas from?
(a) Unhealthy habits.
(b) Television.
(c) Racism.
(d) Seductive and violent music.

2. Why does Joe begin to feel distanced from Violet?
(a) She begins to drink excessively.
(b) She is having an extramarital affair.
(c) She tells him she wants to get a divorce.
(d) He senses that she longs for a child.

3. What happens the same day Dorcas's mother is burned in the house fire?
(a) Dorcas's father is killed during a race riot.
(b) Dorcas is fired from her job.
(c) She overdoses on medication.
(d) She is arrested by the police for murder.

4. Why doesn't a fire truck intervene during the house fire in Dorcas's home?
(a) It is waiting for a fire in a white neighborhood.
(b) All the firemen are on strike.
(c) It is broken down.
(d) It is out of gas.

5. What is Dorcas feeling as she is dancing with Acton?
(a) Disconnected.
(b) Facetious.
(c) Miserable.
(d) Completely happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the true reason Dorcas breaks up with Joe?

2. Why does Dorcas think she is falling at the party?

3. Why does Dorcas have to be careful about how she looks and acts around Acton?

4. Why does Dorcas like Acton better than Joe?

5. How does the author describe Acton's appearance from Dorcas's point of view?

(see the answer key)

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