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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 does Violet do when the cotton crop is harvested?
(a) She stays in the neighborhood and works for a family.
(b) She raises children.
(c) She becomes a teacher.
(d) She goes back to Virginia.

2. What does Dorcas rescue from her home as a small child?
(a) A photo album.
(b) Her clothespin dolls.
(c) She decides not to rescue anything.
(d) Her pet kitten.

3. What instrument is constantly played during the parade?
(a) Flute.
(b) Trumpet.
(c) Tuba.
(d) Drums.

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

5. What is True Belle's relationship to Violet?
(a) She is Violet's school teacher.
(b) She is Violet's nanny.
(c) She is Violet's grandmother.
(d) She is Violet's older sister.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who adopts Joe at birth?

3. Which of the following are in Violet's apartment?

4. What does Malvonne do for a living?

5. Who does Alice try to teach Dorcas to avoid?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first time Joe officially meets Dorcas.

2. In Chapter Two, recount the surprise that Malvonne finds behind her refrigerator and her response to it.

3. Describe the relationship between Alice Manfred and Dorcas.

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

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

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

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

8. Describe how Dorcas's mother dies.

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

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

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