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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 Miss Yorke's job?
(a) A secretary.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A dressmaker.
(d) A housewife.

2. What of the following words best describes Serafina?
(a) Slim.
(b) Fat.
(c) Plump.
(d) Anorexic.

3. What city are Bessie and Flora catching a train to?
(a) Mobile.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) New York.
(d) Los Angeles.

4. What is Serafina worried she will be late for?
(a) The graduation ceremony.
(b) A dinner date.
(c) The wedding ceremony.
(d) The cinema.

5. What is Serafina wearing?
(a) A pink slip.
(b) A night dress.
(c) A blue mini skirt.
(d) A black shawl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rose meet Jack?

2. What does Rosa say she is ashamed of?

3. What does Serafina say her husband had a body like?

4. What does Estelle do to the boy?

5. What did Rose tell Peppina had been locked up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Serafina run out of her house screaming?

2. Why is Rosa so sad?

3. Why can Rosa still graduate despite the fact she had not attended any exams?

4. How does Rosa react to her father's death?

5. How does Serafina try to tidy her mother up?

6. Why does Serafina say she does not want to make friends with her neighbors?

7. How did Rosario die?

8. What sound comes from the back of the cottage?

9. Why does Jack want to take Rosa's handkerchief back to his ship?

10. What does the doctor tell Father de Leo about Serafina?

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