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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dorcas like Acton better than Joe?
(a) He is more handsome and funnier.
(b) He doesn't abuse her like Joe.
(c) He is rich and talented.
(d) He is young and has power over her.

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

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

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

5. What does Felice tell the Traces about Dorcas?
(a) She has the best of intentions.
(b) She has no true style.
(c) She is always getting others into trouble.
(d) She is innocent and sweet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vera Louise do with True Belle's wages?

2. What happens to the plantation thirteen years after Golden Gray meets his father?

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

4. What is the real reason the ambulance is delayed?

5. What sort of present does Acton buy Dorcas?

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