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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Violet steal during one of her crazy episodes?
(a) Knives.
(b) Candy.
(c) A television.
(d) A baby.

4. Who tells Golden Gray where his father lives?
(a) Vera Louise.
(b) The town gossip.
(c) True Belle.
(d) Rose Dear.

5. What happens when Dorcas eats candy?
(a) She becomes depressed.
(b) She becomes bloated.
(c) She breaks out.
(d) She gets hives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the green and yellow parrot repeat?

2. What does Joe not recall from his early days with Violet?

3. Why doesn't Violet sleep at night?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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