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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. How does Alice describe Dorcas?
(a) Plain but fun-loving.
(b) Ugly but pleasant.
(c) Beautiful but hardheaded.
(d) Funny but quiet.

2. What does Joe wipe his tears with?
(a) A red handkerchief.
(b) His hands.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Dorcas's picture.

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

4. Who attends the parade with Dorcas in 1917?
(a) Alice Manfred.
(b) Joe and Violet.
(c) Joe only.
(d) No one.

5. What is the 1917 parade protesting?
(a) Child abuse.
(b) Desegregation.
(c) The St. Louis race riots.
(d) Abortion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the best hunter choose to be his apprentices?

2. What does Malvonne include in the letter from Hot Steam to Daddy Sage?

3. What is special about Neola Miller?

4. What is the reaction from Joe's friends and family when he and Violet move to the city?

5. Who does Alice eventually allow to come visit her at home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Dorcas's clothespin dolls in Chapter Three?

2. What is the story the narrator gives behind Joe's last name?

3. Why do Joe and Violet fall into such deep debt in Chapter Five?

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

5. Describe the first time Joe officially meets Dorcas.

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

7. Describe the relationship between Alice Manfred and Dorcas.

8. Why is Violet known as "Violent" Trace in town?

9. How does the narrator describe the way Joe and Violet meet in Chapter Four?

10. How does Violet learn more about Dorcas in Chapter One? What does she learn?

(see the answer keys)

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