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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't a fire truck intervene during the house fire in Dorcas's home?
(a) All the firemen are on strike.
(b) It is out of gas.
(c) It is waiting for a fire in a white neighborhood.
(d) It is broken down.

2. What does Violet try to do to Dorcas's face?
(a) Make it look younger.
(b) Apply more makeup.
(c) Make it look older.
(d) Disfigure it with a knife.

3. Who does Dorcas stay with when Alice goes to work?
(a) The Miller sisters.
(b) Joe's mother.
(c) No one.
(d) True Belle.

4. Who understands, like Joe, what it feels like to feel nothing inside?
(a) Dorcas.
(b) Rose Dear.
(c) Violet.
(d) Alice.

5. Why does Alice move back to Springfield?
(a) She is running from the Harlem police.
(b) She is too sad staying in Harlem.
(c) To work for a white woman she knows.
(d) She falls in love with a man there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Joe and Violet go up on the roof together?

2. What does Malvonne find behind her refrigerator?

3. What is the reason Golden Gray comes to see Lestory?

4. What does Violet do after she runs from the funeral home?

5. Who does Alice eventually allow to come visit her at home?

(see the answer key)

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