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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Violet's father travel to look for work?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Georgia.
(c) The North.
(d) The Midwest.

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

3. What does Alice Manfred do for a living?
(a) Cleans wealthy people's homes.
(b) Cooks in a nearby restaurant.
(c) She is a nurse for a black doctor.
(d) She is a seamstress.

4. What happens to Violet after she attacks Dorcas's body?
(a) She feels split into two people.
(b) She is arrested and tried.
(c) She becomes more compassionate.
(d) She loses her affinity for violence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sits on every street corner, according to the author?

2. What does Dorcas rescue from her home as a small child?

3. Why do Joe and Violet continue to dance standing in the train car?

4. What does Rose tell people about why her husband leaves?

5. Where does Dorcas insist Joe take her?

(see the answer key)

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