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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the girls arrive at Mildred Harper's house, what does Mildred do?
(a) Mildred calls for Gladys to answer the door.
(b) Mildred shoves Gladys and a box of possessions into the car and walks away.
(c) Mildred feeds them a dinner of fried chicken, string beans, potato salad, and rolls.
(d) Mildred slaps them for daring to come to her house.

2. How does Betsy Ann's father get to work in the morning?
(a) By bus.
(b) By car.
(c) By taxicab.
(d) By train.

3. What does the protagonist of "The First Day" notice as her mother walks away?
(a) The way her mother seems out of place.
(b) The cheap material her purse is made from.
(c) The way her clothes do not fit.
(d) The spot on her sock which she darned the night before.

4. How does Rhonda die?
(a) Rhonda is shot.
(b) Rhonda dies from alcohol poisoning.
(c) Rhonda's father stabs her.
(d) Rhonda overdoses on drugs.

5. What sign does Betsy Ann take to mean that the pigeons have decided to roost in her coop?
(a) The birds no longer leave the coop.
(b) The birds cower in the corner of the coop all day.
(c) The birds have made a nest.
(d) The birds seem to like her.

Short Answer Questions

1. A woman in "The First Day" has fashioned hair curlers out of which of the following?

2. Whose pigeons does Betsy Ann go to visit for the second time?

3. What song does Anita ask Melanie to sing again?

4. When the protagonist of "The First Day" initiates the "old, old game", how does her mother respond?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the items the protagonist carries to school in "The First Day"?

(see the answer key)

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