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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Violet and Joe do all night the first time they meet?
(a) Fight.
(b) Eat.
(c) Talk.
(d) Dance.

2. What does Violet do after she runs from the funeral home?
(a) Tries to commit suicide.
(b) Releases all the birds from their cages.
(c) Takes a train back to Virginia.
(d) Attacks Joe while he is sleeping.

3. Who wipes the blood from the woman's face?
(a) The woman wipes her own face.
(b) An unidentified character.
(c) A young black boy caring for Lestory's stock.
(d) Golden Gray.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Violet sleep at night?

3. Why doesn't a fire truck intervene during the house fire in Dorcas's home?

4. Who does Dorcas cry for during her mother's funeral?

5. As Golden Gray approaches his father's house, what does he wish to do to his father?

(see the answer key)

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