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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joe get a job at the speakeasy?
(a) So he spends time with Violet in the afternoons.
(b) So he remembers the times he spends with Dorcas.
(c) Because Felice is also working there.
(d) So he earns lots of extra tips.

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

3. What is Felice's response to Violet's invitation?
(a) She ignores Violet.
(b) She accepts.
(c) She says she never eats Violet's food.
(d) She hugs Violet.

4. Why do Felice and her mother go to Tiffany's?
(a) To show that they can buy expensive jewelry.
(b) They are bored.
(c) To create an uproar in the store.
(d) To run errands for a white lady.

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

6. When does Golden Gray find out who his father is?
(a) He never finds out.
(b) The age of two.
(c) When he is on his deathbed.
(d) When he is eighteen.

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

8. During what season does Violet return the photo to Alice?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

9. How long does True Belle stay with the children?
(a) Eleven years.
(b) About a year.
(c) Three years.
(d) Six days.

10. Why does Dorcas tell Joe she wants to break up with him?
(a) She needs room to focus on her career.
(b) She falls in love with someone else.
(c) She is tired of sneaking around.
(d) She is moving far away.

11. Why does Malvonne gossip to both Joe and Violet near the end of the story?
(a) To tell them all of Dorcas's secrets.
(b) To pretend she doesn't betray either of them.
(c) Because everyone is bored.
(d) She wants to help them resolve their differences.

12. What reason does the ambulance staff give for their delayed arrival?
(a) They do not give a reason.
(b) Traffic.
(c) Ice.
(d) Thunderstorms.

13. Who does Joe think is his mother?
(a) True Belle.
(b) Rose Dear.
(c) Wild.
(d) Malvonne.

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

15. Who tells Golden Gray where his father lives?
(a) True Belle.
(b) Rose Dear.
(c) The town gossip.
(d) Vera Louise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl do to Lestory?

2. What does Felice say Dorcas likes having?

3. What does Felice learn about the ring's location?

4. As Golden Gray approaches his father's house, what does he wish to do to his father?

5. Why does Dorcas often sneak over to Felice's house?

(see the answer keys)

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