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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. How often does Felice see her parents growing up?
(a) Once a year.
(b) Only on holidays.
(c) Two or three days every two weeks.
(d) Every day.

2. How does True Belle know Vera Louise Gray is pregnant?
(a) True Belle does Vera Louise's laundry.
(b) She sees it in a dream.
(c) She reads Vera Louise's diary.
(d) She eavesdrops on Vera Louise's conversation.

3. What does Violet offer to do to Felice's hair?
(a) Wash it.
(b) Unbraid it.
(c) Trim the ends.
(d) Curl it.

4. Why does Dorcas have to be careful about how she looks and acts around Acton?
(a) He has the power to make or break her career.
(b) He moves on to another girl.
(c) He suspects she is not really in love with him.
(d) He demoralizes her and hit her.

5. What is Dorcas feeling as she is dancing with Acton?
(a) Facetious.
(b) Disconnected.
(c) Completely happy.
(d) Miserable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Joe when the plantation burns?

2. What is the name of the speakeasy where Joe gets a job?

3. What does Joe hear in the woods after fishing?

4. What does Rose tell people about why her husband leaves?

5. Who tells Joe about Dorcas's last words?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between True Belle and Golden Gray.

2. Describe what Violet sees when she first spots Felice in Chapter Nine.

3. Describe the way Dorcas is feeling at the party in the beginning of Chapter Eight.

4. What does Vera Louise's mother do when she finds out Vera Louise is pregnant?

5. What is your understanding of the relationship between Joe, Violet, and Felice in Chapters Nine and Ten?

6. How does the narrator describe Acton?

7. Who are the only people who do not know that Vera Louise has a son with a black man?

8. What sorts of things to Joe and Violet do together once their relationship is renewed?

9. Why doesn't Dorcas want anyone to call an ambulance for her after she is shot?

10. Describe the way Felice obtains the ring, as presented by the narrator in Chapter Nine.

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