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

2. Who does True Belle constantly describe to Violet?

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

4. What does Felice tell the Traces about Dorcas?

5. What does Golden Gray ask Lestory?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the symbolism Morrison includes in her novel of Violet releasing the birds? What events lead up to this, and how is Violet different afterward?

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

How do you describe the development of the relationship between Alice and Violet? Why do you think Violet is so determined to befriend Alice? What benefits do both women derive from the relationship?

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