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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 49-114.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago was Gladys diagnosed with cancer, according to Ava?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 3 months.

2. What is the name of the sharecropper for whom Josephine and her husband work after the Civil War?
(a) Mr. Dennis.
(b) Mr. Geoffrey.
(c) Mr. Melton.
(d) Mr. Rush.

3. In what room of Gladys's house does Ava wait for her mother to finish with her clients?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The patio.
(c) Gladys's bedroom.
(d) The living room.

4. The narrator reveals that Josephine began her life as a what?
(a) A serf.
(b) A thief.
(c) A sharecropper.
(d) A slave.

5. Ava remembers Grandma Martha seeking her out at what time each year in order "to pay for tennis and math and science camps" (6)?
(a) Easters.
(b) Summers.
(c) Christmases.
(d) The first days of spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way is King related to Ava?

2. When Gladys comes to visit Ava and King for the first time at Grandma Martha's, what object does Ava put in the living room?

3. What is NOT an errand that Ava runs on the day she visits her mother in the section that begins on page 49?

4. The neighbors named Vern and Charlotte that Josephine gained a few months before the reader meets her are what type of people?

5. During the wedding, Josephine has to look away when she gets choked up thinking about three qualities Major shares with his late father. What is NOT one of these qualities?

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