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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 Irene order at the hotel?
(a) Tea.
(b) A sandwich.
(c) Lunch.
(d) A snack.

2. What was Irene's father hiding about Clare?
(a) She was part Chinese.
(b) She was black.
(c) She was part Mexian.
(d) She passed for white.

3. When does Irene decide to respond to Clare's letter?
(a) The day she receives it.
(b) The day after she receives it.
(c) Never.
(d) The next week.

4. What do Brian and Irene discuss as they eat breakfast?
(a) Clare's letter.
(b) His job.
(c) His family.
(d) Her job.

5. Whom do Irene and Gertrude talk about?
(a) Clare.
(b) Clare and John.
(c) John Bellew.
(d) Clare's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Irene want Brian to take Junior?

2. Irene thinks that what group of people cannot tell what race she is?

3. Who talked Brian out of moving to Brazil?

4. Where does Nella spend the majority of her childhood?

5. How does Clare get hold of Irene?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Irene decide to write Clare back? How has she decided to respond?

2. How does Irene react to John Bellew's cruel words?

3. Why did Irene's father keep it from Irene that Clare was passing for white?

4. Where does Irene travel to the day after her meeting with Clare? How does Irene first respond to Clare's note?

5. What is some background information about the author?

6. What name does John Bellew, Clare's husband, call his wife? Why?

7. Whom else did Clare invite along when she meets Irene? What do Clare and the other guest have in common?

8. What are Irene's plans about meeting Clare? How does she wind up meeting her?

9. What does Brian tell Irene about someone who can pass for white?

10. How does Brian respond to Irene's concerns about Junior?

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