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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Joe buy Dorcas the first day they meet?
(a) A horse.
(b) A dress.
(c) Peppermint candy.
(d) Beer.

3. What happens the same day Dorcas's mother is burned in the house fire?
(a) Dorcas is fired from her job.
(b) She overdoses on medication.
(c) She is arrested by the police for murder.
(d) Dorcas's father is killed during a race riot.

4. What happens to Violet after she attacks Dorcas's body?
(a) She feels split into two people.
(b) She becomes more compassionate.
(c) She is arrested and tried.
(d) She loses her affinity for violence.

5. Who sits on every street corner, according to the author?
(a) Single mothers.
(b) Blind beggars.
(c) Blues musicians.
(d) Young prostitutes.

6. How does Violet decide to get back at Joe?
(a) Become pregnant.
(b) Leave Joe forever.
(c) Have an affair in their home.
(d) Kill his pet dog.

7. Why is Joe jealous of the young men on the street?
(a) They do not have to go searching for women.
(b) They have living parents and loving wives.
(c) They do not have to worry about segregation and racism.
(d) They have lots of money and good jobs.

8. When does Alice realize Dorcas and Joe are having an affair?
(a) Never.
(b) The first night Dorcas and Joe meet.
(c) Thanksgiving dinner.
(d) After Dorcas is dead.

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

10. Where does Violet's father travel to look for work?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Georgia.
(c) The Midwest.
(d) The North.

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

12. What does Violet find in the bottom of the parrot's cage?
(a) A knife.
(b) A pen.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A shoe.

13. How does Alice describe Dorcas?
(a) Beautiful but hardheaded.
(b) Plain but fun-loving.
(c) Funny but quiet.
(d) Ugly but pleasant.

14. What is special about Neola Miller?
(a) She is deaf.
(b) Her hair is bright yellow.
(c) She is a genius.
(d) Her left arm is paralyzed over her heart.

15. What happens to Violet's mother after her father leaves the family?
(a) She remarries and becomes abusive.
(b) She becomes insane and tries to kill her children.
(c) She becomes incapacitated.
(d) She earns an education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attends the parade with Dorcas in 1917?

2. Where does Violet put the picture of Dorcas?

3. Who does Joe pray sends him a sign as he sits in the bushes?

4. What does Joe see in Dorcas's picture?

5. What does Violet try to do to Dorcas's face?

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