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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What sort of person does Dorcas want to be with?
(a) Someone older and refined.
(b) Someone sweet and caring.
(c) Someone funny and generous.
(d) Someone young and admirable.

5. Who doesn't want an ambulance to be called after Joe shot Dorcas?
(a) Alice.
(b) Felice.
(c) Violet.
(d) Dorcas.

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

7. Where are Violet and her siblings living with their mother?
(a) In the basement of an occupied home.
(b) In an abandoned shack.
(c) In a treehouse.
(d) In an old motel.

8. What do Joe or Violet do after supper near the end of the story?
(a) Call their parents.
(b) Go for a walk.
(c) Play poker.
(d) Wash dishes.

9. What do Joe and Violet take up on the roof with them?
(a) A bird.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A picnic.
(d) A record player.

10. Where does Vera Louise go until she has the baby?
(a) Chicago.
(b) California.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Boston.

11. What is the reason Golden Gray comes to see Lestory?
(a) To understand more about his heritage.
(b) To see how black he is.
(c) To invite his father to come live with him.
(d) To ask his father for money.

12. How does True Belle know Vera Louise Gray is pregnant?
(a) She eavesdrops on Vera Louise's conversation.
(b) True Belle does Vera Louise's laundry.
(c) She reads Vera Louise's diary.
(d) She sees it in a dream.

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

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

15. What does True Belle sew to the hem of her dress?
(a) A picture of her daughter.
(b) Her fine silver.
(c) Twenty-two years' wages.
(d) A one-dollar bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the story, what do Joe and Violet do together?

2. When does the ambulance arrive to help Dorcas?

3. What does Violet Felice carry as she climbs the stairs?

4. What reason does the ambulance staff give for their delayed arrival?

5. What is Dorcas feeling as she is dancing with Acton?

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