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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. Who does the best hunter choose to be his apprentices?
(a) Joe and his father.
(b) Joe and Victory.
(c) Golden Gray and Lestory.
(d) Joe and Dorcas.

2. Who tells Violet Dorcas's address?
(a) Alice.
(b) Malvonne.
(c) True Belle.
(d) Joe.

3. What is special about Neola Miller?
(a) She is deaf.
(b) She is a genius.
(c) Her hair is bright yellow.
(d) Her left arm is paralyzed over her heart.

4. Why doesn't Violet sleep at night?
(a) Joe snores loudly.
(b) She sleeps too much during the day.
(c) The birds are gone.
(d) She is awakened by nightmares.

5. What does Violet find in the bottom of the parrot's cage?
(a) A knife.
(b) A pen.
(c) A shoe.
(d) A necklace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take for Joe and Violet to pay off the debt on their farm?

2. Who does Joe pray sends him a sign as he sits in the bushes?

3. Who sits on every street corner, according to the author?

4. How does Rose Dear eventually die?

5. Who understands, like Joe, what it feels like to feel nothing inside?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the death of Dorcas's mother.

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

5. In Chapter Four, how does the narrator describe the way Violet feels after she attacks Dorcas's body?

6. Describe how Dorcas's mother dies.

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

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

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

10. How does the narrator describe the scene in which Violet attacks Dorcas's body?

(see the answer keys)

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