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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe not recall from his early days with Violet?
(a) What they buy as a couple.
(b) The dresses that she wears.
(c) Specific dates.
(d) Feelings.

2. Who lives with Joe on Lenox Avenue?
(a) Violet.
(b) Dorcas.
(c) Alice.
(d) Golden Gray.

3. What does Joe see in Dorcas's picture?
(a) A scraggly, shy teenager.
(b) A beautiful, sweet girl.
(c) An aged, harsh woman.
(d) A woman who looks just like Violet.

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

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

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

7. What does the train conductor announce when he walks through the cabin where Joe and Violet are standing?
(a) It is time to separate from the white customers.
(b) All blacks must leave the train car.
(c) No black couples remain together.
(d) Breakfast is being served.

8. Why is Violet committed to gaining weight?
(a) She thinks it makes her look crazier.
(b) She is trying to get the hips and backside she has as a young woman.
(c) She wants to be admitted to the hospital.
(d) She thinks it makes Joe feel sorry for her.

9. Who does Joe pray sends him a sign as he sits in the bushes?
(a) His mother.
(b) Violet.
(c) His sister.
(d) Dorcas.

10. What does the green and yellow parrot repeat?
(a) "Please help me".
(b) "I love you".
(c) "You're the best man I ever met".
(d) "You're an angel".

11. What is True Belle's relationship to Violet?
(a) She is Violet's nanny.
(b) She is Violet's older sister.
(c) She is Violet's grandmother.
(d) She is Violet's school teacher.

12. What does Violet wear that makes her look crazy?
(a) An overcoat.
(b) Long stockings.
(c) A hat.
(d) Boots.

13. What does the author suppose Violet does while Joe is looking out the window and crying?
(a) Set his hair on fire.
(b) Cook breakfast for him.
(c) Pack up her belongings and leave.
(d) Put her arms around him and comfort him.

14. What does Violet do in response to her crazy episodes?
(a) She writes in her journal.
(b) She becomes more and more silent.
(c) She becomes a musician.
(d) She goes to find a priest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Civic Daughters planning when Joe delivers the cosmetics?

2. What is the 1917 parade protesting?

3. Who sits on every street corner, according to the author?

4. What does Violet find in the bottom of the parrot's cage?

5. What is special about Neola Miller?

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