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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 happens when Dorcas eats candy?
(a) She breaks out.
(b) She becomes bloated.
(c) She becomes depressed.
(d) She gets hives.

2. Why do Joe and Violet continue to dance standing in the train car?
(a) They aren't hungry.
(b) They do not want to lose their places.
(c) They are afraid to sit down for fear they are punished.
(d) They do not want to be separated by the table.

3. Who understands, like Joe, what it feels like to feel nothing inside?
(a) Violet.
(b) Alice.
(c) Dorcas.
(d) Rose Dear.

4. Where does Violet put the picture of Dorcas?
(a) On the mantel.
(b) On the front door.
(c) In the oven.
(d) Under Joe's pillow.

5. When does Alice realize Dorcas and Joe are having an affair?
(a) Never.
(b) Thanksgiving dinner.
(c) The first night Dorcas and Joe meet.
(d) After Dorcas is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Dorcas's mother?

2. What does Alice protect Dorcas from?

3. Who adopts Joe at birth?

4. What does the author suppose Violet does while Joe is looking out the window and crying?

5. What happens to Violet's mother after her father leaves the family?

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 series of thoughts in Joe's mind the night he shoots Dorcas in Chapter Five.

4. Describe how Dorcas's mother dies.

5. Describe the time Joe sees Dorcas for the very first time.

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

7. Describe the death of Dorcas's mother.

8. In Chapter Five, how does the author describe Harlem in the springtime?

9. Describe Joe's recollection of the train ride to Maryland in Chapter Two.

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

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