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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. Why does Min think Jones kicked her in her bottom?
(a) Jones thinks Min is stupid and can't get anything right.
(b) Jones doesn't like the way Min looks as compared to Lutie.
(c) Jones is an evil man.
(d) Jones is angry about his job.

2. How do the elderly women in the neighborhood feel about The Junto?
(a) They're indifferent to it.
(b) They love it.
(c) They think it is an important part of the community.
(d) They hate it.

3. How does Boots respond to Lutie's question about how he's able to get gas for his car?
(a) He says that he gets the gas from his father's auto shop.
(b) He says that she should mind her business.
(c) He says that if you pay the right price you can get gas.
(d) He says that gas is not that hard to find.

4. Which literary element does the author use to give the wind its power?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Personification.

5. While in Connecticut, what valuable lesson does Lutie learn?
(a) "...Being rich is simple. It does not require much work at all."
(b) "...Black people will never be rich since it requires too much hard work and planning."
(c) "...Not everyone can be rich. It requires a lot of hard work."
(d) "...anybody could be rich if he wanted to and worked hard enough and figured it out carefully enough."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Min feel about Mrs. Hedges?

2. How does the author describe The Junto?

3. How does Mrs. Hedges respond to Min's attempt to leave her some money?

4. What worries Lutie about Boots' driving?

5. What does Jones discover when he gets home from Lutie's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter 5 is written from Min's point of view. Why has the author chosen to use different narrators?

2. Lutie secures the job at the Chandlers', but she is unable to share her joy with her husband. Why is this?

3. How does Lutie's grandmother's insistence that the butchers in Harlem use embalming fluid to give their meat a nice fresh color reflect her grandmother's overall view of life?

4. How does chapter 3 illustrate the racism and sexism faced by Lutie? Provide at least 1 example of each.

5. Lutie first begins to measure people and their intentions in Chapter 1. How do you rate Lutie's ability to read people? Do you think she is accurate in her summations?

6. After leaving Jim, Lutie never reaches out to him again. How does this single fact reflect Lutie's strength?

7. Describe what Junto's means to the different people in the neighborhood.

8. In Chapter 1, what idea does the author hope to represent with the shrinking canary, dog, and woman in Jones' apartment?

9. Why has Lutie failed, up until Chapter 9, to consider that Bub might be afraid of staying home alone?

10. What is likely the reason Bub refuses to tell his mother he's afraid of the dark?

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