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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Golden Gray ask Lestory?

3. How does the author describe Acton's appearance from Dorcas's point of view?

4. What other girls are "after" Acton?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 10, why does Alice Manfred move back to Springfield? What do you think is the real reason she moves back to Springfield?

4. Describe what Joe and Violet do together at night in Chapter 10.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What impact do you think Alice Manfred has on Dorcas? Do you think Dorcas is the same sort of person id she is not being raised by Alice? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Morrison includes the confrontation between Golden Gray and his father? What purpose does the scene serve? Do you think the reader has just as thorough an understanding of the characters without this description of events?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the relationship between True Belle and Vera Louise Gray. Do the events they share bring them together or pull them apart? How does each of their relationships with Golden Gray compare to the other?

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