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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 Mama install a curtain in the waiting room of her hospital?
(a) So everyone can have privacy.
(b) For white women to pull around themselves.
(c) For Black women to pull around themselves.
(d) She does not install a curtain in the waiting room.

2. What does Mama want to open after the war?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A theater.
(c) A bookstore.
(d) A school.

3. Who does Ben Daisy say he saw wearing three wedding bands?
(a) Mama.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Lenore.
(d) Daisy.

4. What does Mama keep in a jar?
(a) Dead flowers.
(b) Mayo.
(c) Her sister's necklace.
(d) Her sister's braids.

5. Who tells Mama the news of Ben Daisy's death?
(a) Culver.
(b) Pete Back Back.
(c) Libertie.
(d) Lenore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mama stop imagining new cures?

2. What does Mama do for a living?

3. What can Mama pass for?

4. Where did Robert always want to go?

5. Why did Mama become a doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mr. Ben become Ben Daisy?

2. Who is Daisy?

3. Whose grave does Libertie tend to?

4. Who makes Friendship albums?

5. What secret does Mama make Libertie keep?

6. Who is Miss Hannah?

7. Who is Elizabeth?

8. How does Mr. Ben die?

9. How does Mr. Ben get to Mama's?

10. What does Mama keep in a jar on the mantlepiece?

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