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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Alice eventually allow to come visit her at home?
(a) Dorcas's pet dog.
(b) Felice.
(c) Joe.
(d) Violet.

2. What does Rose tell people about why her husband leaves?
(a) He is very sick and has to get professional help.
(b) He is fed up with the price of coffee and his daughter's physical ailments.
(c) He is running from the police.
(d) He is going to college in New York City.

3. What is the 1917 parade protesting?
(a) Child abuse.
(b) Desegregation.
(c) The St. Louis race riots.
(d) Abortion.

4. What happens to Dorcas's mother?
(a) She gradually becomes insane.
(b) She dies in a housefire.
(c) She runs away to Mexico.
(d) She is killed by a boyfriend.

5. As Golden Gray approaches his father's house, what does he wish to do to his father?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Threaten him with his gun.
(c) Fight him.
(d) Hug him and make amends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Miller sisters call the police station repeatedly?

2. How much debt does Joe and Violet have on the land?

3. Why doesn't Violet sleep at night?

4. What does Joe think about Adam and the Garden of Eden?

5. What does the train conductor announce when he walks through the cabin where Joe and Violet are standing?

(see the answer key)

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