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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does F. Jasmin stop to look at on her way to Bernice's house?
(a) The school house.
(b) The Blue Moon.
(c) The department store.
(d) The jail.

2. What Bible verse does Bernice reference while speaking with F. Jasmin about the wedding?
(a) Cain and Able.
(b) David and Goliath.
(c) Noah and the Ark.
(d) Adam and Eve.

3. Why does F. Jasmin go to Bernice's house?
(a) To talk to Bernice about her soldier friend.
(b) To meet Bernice's new beau.
(c) To escape her house.
(d) To have her fortune told by Bernice's mother.

4. Which character says, "If it's anything I mortally despise it's a person who starts out to tell something and works up people's interest and then stops"?
(a) Solider from the Blue Moon.
(b) Bernice.
(c) F. Jasmin.
(d) John Henry.

5. How long ago does Bernice say she met Ludie?
(a) 10 years ago.
(b) 20 years ago.
(c) 5 years ago.
(d) 30 years ago.

6. What was F. Jasmin's favorite food?
(a) Corn bread.
(b) Hopping-john.
(c) The ham knuckle.
(d) Buttermilk.

7. What color is the dress that F. Jasmin plans on wearing to the wedding?
(a) Purple.
(b) Pink.
(c) Orange.
(d) Yellow.

8. According to the narrator, time in August could be divided into four parts. What is not one of those parts?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Light.
(c) Morning.
(d) Dark.

9. How does F. Jasmin escape the solider?
(a) She sneaks out by the fire escape and goes home.
(b) She sneaks out of a side door and goes to Bernice's house.
(c) She sneaks out the window and goes to Bernice's house.
(d) She sneaks out the front door and goes home.

10. What did the streets in the middle of the town remind F. Jasmin of?
(a) A carnival fair.
(b) A dance party.
(c) A Mexican fiesta.
(d) A war zone.

11. What does F. Jasmin recall for Bernice's mom?
(a) Stealing a pocketknife from Sears and Roebuck.
(b) Evelyn Owen.
(c) A dream in which she faced an opening door.
(d) The solider that she met from the Blue Moon.

12. How does F. Jasmin knock the solider out?
(a) She hits him over the head with a water basin.
(b) She breaks a glass water pitcher over his head.
(c) She hits him over the head with a lead pipe.
(d) She hits him in the head with a baseball bat.

13. Which one of Bernice's husbands was an alcoholic?
(a) Her first husband.
(b) Her second husband.
(c) Her fourth husband.
(d) Her third husband.

14. What year was Frankie born?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1930.

15. Where did Bernice and Ludie get married?
(a) New First Baptist Church.
(b) Holy Redeemer Church.
(c) Welcome Ascension Church.
(d) New Bible Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernice's mom ask F. Jasmin to recall?

2. What is F. Jasmin's biggest fear at the end of Part 2, Chapter 3?

3. What does the sign above the sign above the sink in the Blue Moon hotel read?

4. Which character says," Fool's hill. You have a whole lot less of sense than I was giving you credit for. What makes you think they want to take you along with them? Two is a company and three is a crowd."

5. What is Bernice's mom's name?

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