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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cassandra carry in her pocket?
(a) Her mother's obituary.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) An eviction notice.
(d) Newspaper clippings of Rhonda's success, wrapped in tinfoil.

2. Where does Jenny encounter Clara and Robert?
(a) Walking through Central Park.
(b) Outside Hahn's shoe store.
(c) On the subway.
(d) Standing on the sidewalk outside her house.

3. In "The First Day", the admissions staff members at Seaton Elementary look like models out of which of the following magazines?
(a) Good Housekeeping.
(b) Vogue.
(c) Marie Claire.
(d) Ebony.

4. In "The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed", when the car stalls, who is able to get it started?
(a) Melanie.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Wesley.
(d) Anita.

5. What color are the protagonist's socks in "The First Day"?
(a) Yellow trimmed in white and black.
(b) White trimmed with green.
(c) One is black, one is white.
(d) White.

6. Who had told Caesar that dreams were a good sign for a conman?
(a) Soto.
(b) Carol.
(c) Manny.
(d) Sherman.

7. Why does Caesar dislike it when Manny calls his apartment?
(a) Manny whispers everything over the phone, making it seem obscene.
(b) Caesar has been trying to distance himself from Manny.
(c) Caesar does not want Carol to find out what he is planning to do.
(d) Caesar does not want there to be record of any communications between himself and Manny.

8. Which church does the protagonist's mother attend in "The First Day"?
(a) St. John's Lutheran.
(b) First Baptist Church.
(c) Mt. Carmel Baptist.
(d) First Methodist Church.

9. Whose pigeons does Betsy Ann go to visit for the second time?
(a) Miles'.
(b) Clara's.
(c) Miss Jenny's.
(d) Robert's.

10. How much does Mildred give Cassandra for gas?
(a) $20.
(b) Nothing extra.
(c) $3.
(d) $5.

11. In "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons," how many years pass before Betsy Ann wants to see the pigeons again?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

12. When does "The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed" take place?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) December.

13. What is the only reason Cassandra does not think it would be fair to shoot the fathers of Joyce's and Pearl's babies?
(a) Boys will be boys.
(b) The "It takes two to tango" rule.
(c) The boys' families would miss them.
(d) The boys offered to marry the girls.

14. What color is Clara's casket?
(a) White.
(b) Varnished pine.
(c) Pink.
(d) Black.

15. Where do Betsy Ann and her father live?
(a) In an apartment on the third floor of Jenny and Walter Creed's house.
(b) In a house with Miles.
(c) In the basement of Jenny and Walter Creed's house.
(d) In an apartment rented out by Betsy Ann's grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Betsy Ann's father deal with the dead pigeons?

2. How does Caesar learn the mentally disabled woman's schedule?

3. What is Cassandra smoking at the opening of the story?

4. When was the last time Caesar had seen Sherman?

5. What interrupts Cassandra as she writes her phone number down for Wesley?

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