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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 is set to happen the night Bethie comes to Connecticut to visit Jo in Part IV?
(a) A blizzard.
(b) Flooding.
(c) A meteor shower.
(d) A hurricane.

2. What do many of Jo's neighbors say about motherhood and marriage?
(a) It is very easy to both work and have children.
(b) It is good for a few years, but then it gets harder.
(c) It is very exciting.
(d) It is boring sometimes.

3. What does Jo try the hardest to forgive Bethie for in Part IV?
(a) Her resentment towards Jo.
(b) Her inadvertent role in Jo's path in life to get married.
(c) Her jealousy towards Jo.
(d) Her constant requests for loans.

4. What does Sarah tell Bethie and Jo at Thanksgiving at her house in Part IV?
(a) She is getting remarried.
(b) She is not their biological mother.
(c) She has lost the house.
(d) She is terminally ill.

5. What does Dave call Jo as a term of endearment?
(a) Honey.
(b) Dear.
(c) Lambie.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Jo read when she goes on her trip abroad?

2. What does Jo think Bethie has a certain genius for?

3. What is Philip's signature dish that he serves at Blue Hill Farm?

4. Who does Bethie meet in New York City who changes her life in Part III?

5. How did Harold Jefferson injure his leg?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jo react when Bethie asks her about Shelley?

2. What do many of Jo's neighbors say during Bethie's consciousness-raising exercise about their lives in Part IV?

3. What are Shelley and Jo supposed to do after graduation?

4. In Part III, how does Bethie make a living?

5. What are the personalities of Jo's two daughters Kim and Missy like?

6. How does Jo remember the night Shelley came to find her in 1976?

7. Why does Sarah send Jo a telegram telling her to come home immediately just as Jo starts her trip abroad?

8. What does Bethie get arrested for when she comes back to Detroit for her friend's wedding?

9. What big life change does Bethie make shortly after her abortion?

10. What kind of conversation does Bethie do with Jo and her neighbors in Part IV?

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