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

2. What is the real reason the ambulance is delayed?
(a) They run out of gas.
(b) Joe tries to stop the ambulance from helping.
(c) They know of Dorcas's reputation.
(d) It is black people calling.

3. What is inside Joe's sample case in Chapter Eight?
(a) A red handkerchief.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Drugs and guns.
(d) Dorcas's clothespin dolls.

4. When does Golden Gray find out who his father is?
(a) When he is on his deathbed.
(b) He never finds out.
(c) The age of two.
(d) When he is eighteen.

5. What does Dorcas notice about Joe when he shoots her?
(a) He is unrecognizable.
(b) He looks insane.
(c) He looks like her father.
(d) He is crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Golden Gray find in the trees near his father's home?

2. Who ends up calling an ambulance for Dorcas?

3. At the end of the story, what do Joe and Violet do together?

4. How does the girl respond to the baby immediately after it is born?

5. What do Joe and Violet take up on the roof with them?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, how does Henry say you can always find Wild?

2. Describe the birthing scene of the naked black girl in Chapter Seven.

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

4. In Chapter Nine, how does Felice describe Dorcas?

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

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

7. In Chapter 10, why do Joe and Violet often go to the roof? What do they do up there together?

8. Why does Dorcas break up with Joe?

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

10. Describe Vera Louise's father's reaction when he is told Vera Louise is pregnant.

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