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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. Where do Ruth and Andrew apply for a new house?
(a) The Bronx
(b) Harlem
(c) Queens
(d) Brooklyn

2. What does Andrew call his church?
(a) The Underground
(b) New Brown Memorial
(c) Metropolitan
(d) Lightness

3. Who taught James to drive?
(a) His grandfather
(b) Ruth
(c) His friends
(d) Daddy

4. What type of cancer is Ruth diagnosed with in this chapter?
(a) Nostril cancer
(b) Skin cancer
(c) Bowel cancer
(d) Lung cancer

5. Who dies at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Frances
(b) Ruth's grandfather
(c) Ruth's mother
(d) Ruth's grandmother

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ruth attend high school?

2. What does James teach his mother in this chapter?

3. Why does Ruth return to Virginia?

4. What kind of job does Ruth find in this chapter?

5. What did Ruth's mother used to feed the birds?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the book.

2. Describe the blood sacrifice of a chicken.

3. Describe Halina's time in an underground prison.

4. What problems do Ruth and Andrew have getting married?

5. In what way do Ruth and Andrew become more involved in religion in Chapter 23?

6. How does Andrew help Ruth get over her mother's death?

7. In what way does James think his mother is a success?

8. What does Aubrey Rubenstein tell James in Chapter 22?

9. Who is David Wind?

10. Why does Ruth struggle to find a place she wants to be buried?

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