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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rose tell people about why her husband leaves?
(a) He is running from the police.
(b) He is very sick and has to get professional help.
(c) He is going to college in New York City.
(d) He is fed up with the price of coffee and his daughter's physical ailments.

2. Why does Joe want to find Dorcas again?
(a) So he can divorce Violet and run away.
(b) So they are happy together again.
(c) So she is safe.
(d) So he can tell her all about his childhood.

3. Who wipes the blood from the woman's face?
(a) A young black boy caring for Lestory's stock.
(b) Golden Gray.
(c) The woman wipes her own face.
(d) An unidentified character.

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

5. What does Golden Gray cover the woman's body with?
(a) A green dress.
(b) The curtain.
(c) Aluminum foil.
(d) Nothing.

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

7. What other girls are "after" Acton?
(a) All of them.
(b) Dorcas's best friend, Felice.
(c) No other girls desire Acton.
(d) A group of white girls.

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

9. Why does Dorcas think she is falling at the party?
(a) She does not know why.
(b) Someone trips her.
(c) She is in love with Acton.
(d) She has too much to drink.

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

11. 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.

12. 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) She wants to help them resolve their differences.
(c) Because everyone is bored.
(d) To pretend she doesn't betray either of them.

13. How does the girl respond to the baby immediately after it is born?
(a) She refuses to hold it.
(b) She holds it to her chest.
(c) She cries and nurses it.
(d) She tries to smother it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Joe and Violet do when they meet at the drugstore?

2. What does Golden Gray ask Lestory?

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

4. What sort of present does Acton buy Dorcas?

5. How does True Belle know Vera Louise Gray is pregnant?

(see the answer keys)

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