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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does the best hunter choose to be his apprentices?
(a) Joe and his father.
(b) Joe and Victory.
(c) Golden Gray and Lestory.
(d) Joe and Dorcas.

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

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

6. What happens to Dorcas's mother?
(a) She gradually becomes insane.
(b) She runs away to Mexico.
(c) She is killed by a boyfriend.
(d) She dies in a housefire.

7. What does Malvonne find behind her refrigerator?
(a) A box of money.
(b) An old diamond ring.
(c) A coin collection.
(d) A sack of stolen mail.

8. Why does Joe begin tracking Dorcas down with a gun?
(a) He is slowly going insane and is having delusions.
(b) He finds out she is cheating on him.
(c) He thinks she is trying to kill him.
(d) He never wants the sweet taste of the apple to end.

9. Who adopts Joe at birth?
(a) Violet's parents.
(b) Rose Dear.
(c) Rhoda and Frank Williams.
(d) True Belle.

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

11. How much debt does Joe and Violet have on the land?
(a) $180.00.
(b) $20,000.00.
(c) $1,800.00.
(d) It is not clear.

12. Who tells Violet Dorcas's address?
(a) Malvonne.
(b) Alice.
(c) Joe.
(d) True Belle.

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

14. Why does True Belle send Violet to Palestine?
(a) To go to beauty school.
(b) To get away from Joe.
(c) To pick cotton.
(d) Violet becomes pregnant.

15. How does Violet meet Joe?
(a) They grow up in the same church together.
(b) They go on a blind date.
(c) They are both lost while trying to get to Chicago.
(d) He falls out of tree she is sleeping under.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take for Joe and Violet to pay off the debt on their farm?

2. Who understands, like Joe, what it feels like to feel nothing inside?

3. What does Joe take with him to the park?

4. Why does Joe begin to feel distanced from Violet?

5. What does Joe think about Violet's crazy episodes?

(see the answer keys)

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