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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Civic Daughters planning when Joe delivers the cosmetics?
(a) The debutante ball.
(b) Dorcas's engagement party.
(c) An Easter Egg hunt.
(d) A Thanksgiving fundraiser.

2. What area does the author describe in springtime?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Harlem.
(c) California.
(d) Virginia.

3. How does Rose Dear eventually die?
(a) She dies of a heart attack.
(b) She convinces her boyfriend to kill her.
(c) She throws herself down a well.
(d) No one is sure.

4. Who sits on every street corner, according to the author?
(a) Single mothers.
(b) Blind beggars.
(c) Blues musicians.
(d) Young prostitutes.

5. Why does Malvonne want to make sure the young black girl's letter gets to the law school?
(a) She is threatened by the police.
(b) She is afraid she is reported for having stolen mail.
(c) The young black girl is Malvonne's daughter.
(d) She is afraid the girl has to get a low-paying job instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of Dorcas's makeup does Violet find out about?

2. Where do Dorcas's clothespin dolls lay?

3. Who does Dorcas cry for during her mother's funeral?

4. How does Violet decide to get back at Joe?

5. What does Violet find in the bottom of the parrot's cage?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does Alice try to protect Dorcas?

2. Describe the relationship between Violet and Alice as presented in Chapter Three.

3. Describe the relationship between Alice Manfred and Dorcas.

4. How does the narrator describe Harlem of the 1920s in Chapter One?

5. Describe the different things Joe and Violet see in the picture of Dorcas.

6. Describe how Dorcas's mother dies.

7. In Chapter Two, what reason does the narrator give for Joe killing Dorcas?

8. In Chapter Five, what does Joe think of when he imagines Dorcas?

9. In Chapter Four, why does True Belle come to Virginia to care for her grandchildren?

10. In Chapter One, how does the narrator describe Violet Trace?

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