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

2. Why does Joe begin tracking Dorcas down with a gun?
(a) He thinks she is trying to kill him.
(b) He is slowly going insane and is having delusions.
(c) He never wants the sweet taste of the apple to end.
(d) He finds out she is cheating on him.

3. Who moves to Chicago?
(a) Rose Dear.
(b) True Belle.
(c) Violet.
(d) Sweetness, Malvonne's nephew.

4. Who does Joe pray sends him a sign as he sits in the bushes?
(a) Violet.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) Dorcas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alice describe Dorcas?

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

3. How much debt does Joe and Violet have on the land?

4. Who adopts Joe at birth?

5. Where does Violet put the picture of Dorcas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter Two, what does Joe tell Dorcas that he never tells Violet?

3. Briefly describe the nature of Joe and Dorcas's relationship as described in Chapter Two.

4. Describe Violet's "crazy episodes" as they are presented in Chapter One.

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

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

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

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

9. Describe what Violet does with the picture of Dorcas in Chapter One.

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

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