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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Helga grows tired and ill from
(a) The dirt and squalor.
(b) Gossip and loneliness.
(c) Bad food.
(d) Continuous child bearing.

2. Green's bad habits are outweighed by his
(a) Long sermons.
(b) Goodness and holiness.
(c) Good looks.
(d) Devotion to her.

3. Helga finds some satisfaction in
(a) Changing the women in the congregation.
(b) Being a preacher's wife.
(c) Living in poverty.
(d) Living in the south.

4. Soon after Helga is well enough to be out of bed
(a) She packs up to leave.
(b) She prays for redemption.
(c) She begins to give birth to her fifth child.
(d) She rejects Green's advances.

5. What has Irene heard about Clare since they were young?
(a) She is a high fashion model in New York.
(b) She has found a career as a dancer.
(c) She has been a housewife.
(d) She has been seen with rich white men.

6. When Clare mentions she would do anything to get what she wants, it
(a) Was meant to alert Brian of her intentions.
(b) Should have been a clue for Irene.
(c) Indicates danger to the children.
(d) Exposes her violent nature.

7. Why does Irene bring up Junior's exposure to sexually tainted jokes?
(a) She hopes it will spark some life in his eyes.
(b) She is trying to divert Brian's attention.
(c) She is being suggestive.
(d) She wants to punish Brian.

8. Irene privately considers what it would be like if
(a) Clare took her sons.
(b) Clare should die.
(c) Clare re-entered Harlem as a black woman.
(d) Brian and Clare eloped.

9. What does Clare's stationery say about her?
(a) She is wealthy.
(b) She is feminine.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She is plain.

10. At all costs, Irene does not want to
(a) Offend Clare.
(b) Lose Felise as a friend.
(c) Lose Brian.
(d) Walk in the snow.

11. Why does Irene feel it unsafe for Clare to come back?
(a) She could be assaulted.
(b) Her picture could end up in the papers.
(c) Her husband and child could find out.
(d) She could be mistaken for someone else.

12. Clare now sees that if her marriage breaks,
(a) She will be free to live in Harlem.
(b) She can travel more.
(c) She will despise her solitude.
(d) She can give up mothering.

13. What animal image comes to Irene's mind when considering Clare?
(a) A lion.
(b) A fox.
(c) A cat.
(d) A cougar.

14. As to Clare's motives, Irene is
(a) Understanding.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Trusting.

15. Irene Redfield does not
(a) Discuss her skin color.
(b) Does not tell her sons they are black.
(c) Reveal to anyone that she is black.
(d) Try to pass as a white person.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Redfields' private dinner table, Clare is

2. Helga's most recent infant

3. Clementine Richards thinks Helga does not

4. Clare married her husband because

5. At the tea, Clare is

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