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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Felice say Dorcas does for Acton?
(a) Murders her friend.
(b) Cuts her hair.
(c) Buy him presents.
(d) Sells her car.

2. What does Joe find near the cooking fire?
(a) Rope, wood, nails, and a hammer.
(b) A dress, a doll, and a cigar case.
(c) Knives and guns.
(d) Flour, sugar, and water.

3. What is Dorcas feeling as she is dancing with Acton?
(a) Disconnected.
(b) Miserable.
(c) Completely happy.
(d) Facetious.

4. What is the relationship between Felice, Joe, and Violet like after Dorcas's death?
(a) Violet and Felice become best friends.
(b) Felice moves in with Joe and Violet and the three become inseparable.
(c) Felice becomes a sort of foster daughter.
(d) Felice and Joe begin having an affair without Violet knowing.

5. What sort of birth does the naked pregnant girl have?
(a) A difficult one.
(b) The girl leaves the cabin while she is in labor, so the reader doesn't know.
(c) An uneventful one.
(d) An easy, short one.

6. Who tells Felice and her mother they must stop trying on rings?
(a) Felice's father.
(b) A white man in a nice suit.
(c) A little girl.
(d) The president of Tiffany's.

7. What does Golden Gray find in the trees near his father's home?
(a) A large sum of money.
(b) A rare flower.
(c) A dying dog.
(d) A naked pregnant woman.

8. When does Dorcas say she reveals the true attacker?
(a) Right before she dies.
(b) Never.
(c) In her next life.
(d) Tomorrow.

9. How does Henry say one knows when Wild is near?
(a) The ladybugs start buzzing.
(b) It begins to rain.
(c) Several redwings congregate in one spot.
(d) The sky turns bright white.

10. What does Golden Gray ask Lestory?
(a) Why Lestory never tries to contact him.
(b) Why he never loves Golden Gray's mother.
(c) Why he finds Golden Gray's mother so attractive.
(d) Why he is still single.

11. What does Felice learn about the ring's location?
(a) Dorcas is buried wearing the ring.
(b) Joe keeps the ring with him at all times.
(c) It is lost in the club where Dorcas is shot.
(d) It is sold to a local auction house.

12. Who else is at the party with Dorcas and Acton?
(a) Wealthy black folk.
(b) Other young adults.
(c) Acton's parents.
(d) Political figures.

13. How old is Joe when the plantation burns?
(a) Fifty-two.
(b) An infant.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twenty.

14. Who does True Belle constantly describe to Violet?
(a) Golden Gray.
(b) Joe.
(c) Violet's mother.
(d) Her dead husband.

15. What does Lestory find when he gets back to his cabin?
(a) Honor is washing blood off the girl's face.
(b) Golden Gray is passed out in the corner.
(c) His house is on fire.
(d) His posessions are stolen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of person does Dorcas want to be with?

2. Who tells Golden Gray where his father lives?

3. Why does Dorcas have to be careful about how she looks and acts around Acton?

4. What does True Belle hope Vera Louise does with the extra money her mother gives her?

5. Why does True Belle return to Vesper County?

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