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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 Dorcas stay with when Alice goes to work?
(a) No one.
(b) Joe's mother.
(c) The Miller sisters.
(d) True Belle.

2. What does Malvonne include in the letter from Hot Steam to Daddy Sage?
(a) An article about adultery.
(b) Violet's phone number.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) A Bible passage.

3. What happens to Violet's mother after her father leaves the family?
(a) She becomes incapacitated.
(b) She becomes insane and tries to kill her children.
(c) She remarries and becomes abusive.
(d) She earns an education.

4. When does Alice realize Dorcas and Joe are having an affair?
(a) Never.
(b) The first night Dorcas and Joe meet.
(c) After Dorcas is dead.
(d) Thanksgiving dinner.

5. Why is Joe jealous of the young men on the street?
(a) They have lots of money and good jobs.
(b) They do not have to go searching for women.
(c) They do not have to worry about segregation and racism.
(d) They have living parents and loving wives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Violet sleep at night?

2. What does Joe take with him to the park?

3. What is the 1917 parade protesting?

4. Who tells Golden Gray where his father lives?

5. What does Golden Gray do before caring for the naked woman?

(see the answer key)

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