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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Felice's mother end up stealing the ring?
(a) She plans to sell it for cash.
(b) Because she is angry with the little girl.
(c) To get even with the white man.
(d) To show Felice's father that she has courage.

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

4. What does Felice say Dorcas likes having?
(a) Lots of money and food.
(b) A true love.
(c) Secrets.
(d) Her own space.

5. What, in Dorcas's mind, is wrong with Joe?
(a) He has no musical talent.
(b) He is cognitively impaired.
(c) He has no sensitive side.
(d) He adores Dorcas, no matter what she does.

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

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

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

9. Who does Dorcas tell her friends attacks her?
(a) She does not tell them.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Joe.

10. Who ends up calling an ambulance for Dorcas?
(a) Acton.
(b) Dorcas.
(c) Joe.
(d) Felice.

11. What is the name of the speakeasy where Joe gets a job?
(a) Musicland.
(b) Easy Money.
(c) Paydirt.
(d) Jazz.

12. What does True Belle hope Vera Louise does with the extra money her mother gives her?
(a) Invest it in a bank.
(b) Use it to buy True Belle's husband and children out of slavery.
(c) Spend it on nice clothes.
(d) Donate it to a good cause.

13. What does Dorcas notice about Joe when he shoots her?
(a) He is crying.
(b) He looks insane.
(c) He looks like her father.
(d) He is unrecognizable.

14. Why does Dorcas have to be careful about how she looks and acts around Acton?
(a) He moves on to another girl.
(b) He has the power to make or break her career.
(c) He suspects she is not really in love with him.
(d) He demoralizes her and hit her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dorcas hope Joe comes looking for her after she breaks up with him?

2. What is Felice's response to Violet's invitation?

3. Why do Felice and her mother go to Tiffany's?

4. How does Golden Gray become drunk?

5. What sort of present does Acton buy Dorcas?

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