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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 to Violet after she attacks Dorcas's body?
(a) She becomes more compassionate.
(b) She loses her affinity for violence.
(c) She feels split into two people.
(d) She is arrested and tried.

2. Where does Dorcas insist Joe take her?
(a) A jazz club.
(b) The zoo.
(c) New York City.
(d) The beauty parlor.

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

4. What happens the same day Dorcas's mother is burned in the house fire?
(a) Dorcas is fired from her job.
(b) She overdoses on medication.
(c) She is arrested by the police for murder.
(d) Dorcas's father is killed during a race riot.

5. What does Joe think about Adam and the Garden of Eden?
(a) He thinks Eve should never offer the fruit.
(b) He thinks the apple is worth the expulsion.
(c) He thinks Adam is incredibly stupid.
(d) He thinks it is all a made-up story.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joe selling when he meets Dorcas?

2. Where do Dorcas's clothespin dolls lay?

3. Why do Joe and Violet continue to dance standing in the train car?

4. What does Dorcas rescue from her home as a small child?

5. What does Joe take with him to the park?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter Four, how does Violet imagine Joe's relationship with Dorcas?

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

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

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

6. Describe the death of Dorcas's mother.

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

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

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

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

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