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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 does Felice compare Dorcas to?
(a) A movie star.
(b) A snake.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A bird.

2. What sort of birth does the naked pregnant girl have?
(a) An uneventful one.
(b) An easy, short one.
(c) A difficult one.
(d) The girl leaves the cabin while she is in labor, so the reader doesn't know.

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

4. Why does Alice move back to Springfield?
(a) She falls in love with a man there.
(b) She is too sad staying in Harlem.
(c) To work for a white woman she knows.
(d) She is running from the Harlem police.

5. What does True Belle hope Vera Louise does with the extra money her mother gives her?
(a) Spend it on nice clothes.
(b) Use it to buy True Belle's husband and children out of slavery.
(c) Invest it in a bank.
(d) Donate it to a good cause.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money is True Belle's savings worth?

2. What is the relationship between Felice, Joe, and Violet like after Dorcas's death?

3. During what season does Violet return the photo to Alice?

4. Who does Dorcas tell her friends attacks her?

5. How long does True Belle stay with the children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the way True Belle's grandchildren are living when she comes to care for them in Chapter Six.

2. Describe the initial meeting between Golden Gray and his father in Chapter Seven.

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

4. Describe what Golden Gray sees in the forest as he approaches his father's cabin in Chapter Six.

5. Why does Dorcas break up with Joe?

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

7. What happens to the cotton plantation thirteen years after Golden Gray confronts his father?

8. How does the narrator describe Acton?

9. In Chapter Eight, why does the narrator say Dorcas is getting tired of Joe?

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

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