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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 Violet envision Joe giving Dorcas?
(a) An adopted baby.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Chinese food.
(d) Underwear.

2. Who moves to Chicago?
(a) Rose Dear.
(b) True Belle.
(c) Violet.
(d) Sweetness, Malvonne's nephew.

3. Who attends the parade with Dorcas in 1917?
(a) Joe only.
(b) Alice Manfred.
(c) Joe and Violet.
(d) No one.

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

5. Why do the Miller sisters call the police station repeatedly?
(a) To report restaurants serving alcohol.
(b) As a way to keep Dorcas from misbehaving.
(c) They imagine they hear thieves in their home.
(d) They are crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joe selling when he meets Dorcas?

2. What does Dorcas put on Joe's hands?

3. When does Alice realize Dorcas and Joe are having an affair?

4. What instrument is constantly played during the parade?

5. What does Malvonne find behind her refrigerator?

(see the answer key)

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