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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. At one point Angel wanted to leave Sacramento. Where did Angel want to run away to next?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Pair-a-dice.

2. What name did Angel give to Virgil Harper?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Angel.
(d) Mrs. Hosea.

3. How did Duke require his mistress to look?
(a) Sophisticated and wordly in dressing gowns.
(b) Like a school marm, proper and polite.
(c) Clean face, braids, dressed in pastels and ribbons.
(d) Long hair curled with a made-up face.

4. What did Angel do to feel ashamed after running away for the third time?
(a) Become a pick-pocket.
(b) Return to prostitution.
(c) Eat Duke's food.
(d) Cook for strangers.

5. What was in the pocket-sized packet that Miriam give to Michael for Angel?
(a) A poem about sisterhood.
(b) A scripture about love.
(c) A jeweled hair comb.
(d) Seeds for a flower garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Michael's reply when Angel asks him if he ever thought God was playing some horrible joke on him?

2. When Angel left Michael for the third time, what did she put in Miriam's hand?

3. What was the one gift Angel could give Michael?

4. What was Paul's goal every time he saw Angel?

5. Angel was anxious to leave the store to avoid Michael, who was coming for the stove. Who was waiting for Angel at the end of that particular working day?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 28 as Angel prepares to leave Michael for the fourth time, how are her motives completely different than in the past?

2. How is the timing of Michael and Ange's deaths significant?

3. What is Michael's reaction to Angel's darkest secrets in Chapter 21?

4. In Chapter 28, the Hoseas celebrate Christmas at the Altmans, and Michael reads the Christmas story. What is Angel's reaction to the story?

5. How does Angel discover Elizabeth's opinions concerning whom Miriam is in love with? What is Angel's reaction?

6. By the end of Chapter 33, how has Angel's character evolved from the beginning of the book?

7. What happens in Chapter 23 after Michael has retrieved Angel for the second time?

8. In Chapter 34, what does Angel do when she sees Michael for the first time in several years?

9. In San Francisco, Duke gives Angel a choice. She can either go back to her old role as prostitute, or she can become the manager of the girls. Which does she choose and why?

10. In Chapter 22, does Angel's love for Michael change while she is away from him?

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