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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author suppose Violet does while Joe is looking out the window and crying?
(a) Put her arms around him and comfort him.
(b) Cook breakfast for him.
(c) Set his hair on fire.
(d) Pack up her belongings and leave.

2. What area does the author describe in springtime?
(a) California.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Harlem.

3. Why does True Belle send Violet to Palestine?
(a) Violet becomes pregnant.
(b) To pick cotton.
(c) To get away from Joe.
(d) To go to beauty school.

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

5. What does Violet do when the cotton crop is harvested?
(a) She becomes a teacher.
(b) She stays in the neighborhood and works for a family.
(c) She goes back to Virginia.
(d) She raises children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice protect Dorcas from?

2. What happens when Dorcas eats candy?

3. How does the white men refer to the best hunter?

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

5. What does the green and yellow parrot repeat?

(see the answer key)

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