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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. Why does True Belle send Violet to Palestine?
(a) Violet becomes pregnant.
(b) To go to beauty school.
(c) To get away from Joe.
(d) To pick cotton.

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

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

4. What does Violet steal during one of her crazy episodes?
(a) Knives.
(b) Candy.
(c) A baby.
(d) A television.

5. What do Violet and Joe do all night the first time they meet?
(a) Dance.
(b) Fight.
(c) Eat.
(d) Talk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Joe wipe his tears with?

3. What is Joe selling when he meets Dorcas?

4. Why is Joe jealous of the young men on the street?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Alice Manfred and Dorcas.

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

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

4. Describe the relationship between Violet and Alice as presented in Chapter Three.

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

6. Describe the first time Joe officially meets Dorcas.

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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