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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. What does Jo do for the first time at a pickett she goes to with Shelley in Part II?
(a) Faints.
(b) Brings sandwiches.
(c) Leaves early.
(d) Gets arrested.

2. What role does Bethie play in the Hebrew School play?
(a) Hypolita.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Medea.
(d) Esther.

3. Which of Sarah's sisters died of breast cancer?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Iris.
(c) Nonie.
(d) Flora.

4. Who is Jo's best friend's boyfriend in high school?
(a) Bobby Carver.
(b) Marshall Macker.
(c) Mark Smith.
(d) James Lavine.

5. What does the person at the first college party Bethie attends who gives her her first drugs call her?
(a) Alice.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Bonnie.
(d) Mama Cass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harold Jefferson's father do for a living?

2. What does Bethie demand from Uncle Mel in Part I in return for not revealing what he has been doing to her?

3. What is Dev's response when Bethie tells him she loves him?

4. What kind of drink does Shelley make for Jo at her apartment on Jo's first visit there in Part II?

5. Who is the leader of the protest group Jo and Shelley join at college in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jo react when Lynnette tells her about her plans to have sex with her boyfriend for the first time?

2. What happens to Bethie when she goes to the Newport music festival in Part II?

3. Why does Sarah tell Jo and Bethie that Mel refused to give their father a loan some years before their father died?

4. How does Bethie put a stop to her Uncle Mel's abuse?

5. What happens between Jo and Sarah at Thanksgiving dinner in Part II?

6. Why is Jo so upset when she returns from Lynnette's on Thanksgiving Day in Part II?

7. What does Bethie remember about being Esther in the Hebrew School play when she was 11?

8. When Jo is a young child and standing outside the Kaufman's new home on Alhambra Street for the first time, what makes Sarah so angry?

9. What does Bethie think of the farm they stop at with Dev and their friends on the way to Newport?

10. What news does Jo receive in the section of Part I titled "2015"?

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