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

2. What is Felice's response to Violet's invitation?
(a) She hugs Violet.
(b) She says she never eats Violet's food.
(c) She ignores Violet.
(d) She accepts.

3. What is the reason Golden Gray comes to see Lestory?
(a) To invite his father to come live with him.
(b) To see how black he is.
(c) To ask his father for money.
(d) To understand more about his heritage.

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

5. What do Joe and Violet do when they meet at the drugstore?
(a) Fill their neighbors' prescriptions.
(b) Have a malt.
(c) Fight incessantly.
(d) Shop for hair supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does True Belle return to Vesper County?

2. What does Violet Felice carry as she climbs the stairs?

3. When does Golden Gray find out who his father is?

4. What does Lestory say in response to Golden Gray?

5. Where does Vera Louise go until she has the baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do you think the ambulance takes such a long time to come help Dorcas? What excuses do they give?

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

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

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

6. In Chapter Eight, what does Dorcas notice about Joe?

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

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

9. In Chapter Seven, why does Joe think Wild is his own mother?

10. In Chapter Nine, why does Felice come to visit Violet and Joe?

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