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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect did Uncle Peter's check have on Helga?
(a) She feels guilty or causing Peter such trouble.
(b) She begins to miss her mother.
(c) She realizes she has felt yoked to her race.
(d) She remembers that she likes being white.

2. Helga feels like a criminal when she meets Anne because
(a) She knows she is taking advantage of Anne.
(b) Anne thinks Helga's mother just recently died.
(c) She plans to abscond with Anne's fortune.
(d) She has taken money from Hayes-Rore.

3. Robert Anderson's kiss makes Helga
(a) Consider marrying James Vayle.
(b) Realize that she does not like him.
(c) Glad that he has rejected her.
(d) Forget that he would not jeopardize his self-esteem.

4. Helga remembers her mother being
(a) Nurturing.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Polite.
(d) Remote.

5. What Helga respects in Audrey is
(a) Her incredible talent for dancing.
(b) Her ability to look beyond racial barriers.
(c) Her beautiful apricot colored dress.
(d) Her intrigue with Dr. Anderson.

6. Dr. Anderson thinks that Helga's reaction to injustice is
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Appropriate.
(c) Unprofessional.
(d) Too sensitive.

7. It occurs to Helga that perhaps her new uncle
(a) Will not accept her.
(b) Will be attractive.
(c) Will be like Uncle Peter.
(d) Will be black.

8. It is possible that Helga Crane is
(a) Desperate to be married.
(b) Too irritable to have a relationship.
(c) In love with Dr. Anderson.
(d) Ready to settle down with anyone.

9. Helga tells her story to Mrs. Hayes-Rore who
(a) Feels only sympathy for her.
(b) Seems to withdraw from her.
(c) Admonishes her for sharing.
(d) Reacts with anger toward her.

10. Why might Helga have felt alienated in the "Negro" school as a child?
(a) She was not very smart.
(b) She was not good looking.
(c) Her attitude was superior.
(d) She was fair-skinned.

11. The painter, Herr Olsen, finds Helga's looks to be
(a) Somewhat sleazy.
(b) Unusual and fearsome.
(c) Odd and almost frightening.
(d) Amazing and marvelous.

12. At the bottom of Helga's angst may be the fact that
(a) Her family was wealthy at one time.
(b) She comes from questionable circumstances.
(c) She has a better place in society.
(d) She has abandoned her family.

13. The sermon heard earlier affects Helga because
(a) It was not spontaneous.
(b) It was about the persecution of blacks.
(c) She feels it was rude and inappropriate.
(d) It pressed ideas onto the students about God.

14. What disturbs Helga about her conversation with Dr. Anderson?
(a) She is ashamed of herself for resigning.
(b) She feels she told half-truths.
(c) She feels she confided too much to him.
(d) She wanted to stay.

15. In her aunt' home, Helga's innate desire for things
(a) Is more in perspective.
(b) Is fulfilled.
(c) Is extinguished.
(d) Is oppressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Helga watches the dancers, she sees

2. Olsen refers to Helga's refusal of him as

3. Helga has found peace and contentment in

4. Helga wants to leave Naxos because

5. When it comes to Dr. Anderson, Helga has now developed a vague sense of

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