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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Jules while he and Nadine are on the road?
(a) He receives word that his mother is dead.
(b) He is shot and killed.
(c) He is hit by a car.
(d) He gets dysentery.

2. Who cooks and waits up for Pat every night?
(a) Loretta.
(b) Maureen.
(c) Betty.
(d) No one.

3. Why is Jules almost killed in Children of Silence, Chapter 9?
(a) He is mugged walking home from work.
(b) He ponders robbing a store and is shot at by a police officer.
(c) His father beats him severely.
(d) He gets very ill from a drug overdose.

4. How does Loretta make money to support herself and her children?
(a) She becomes a prostitute.
(b) She sells drugs.
(c) She sings at a local nightclub.
(d) She waits tables at a local diner.

5. What year is it at the beginning of the second book, chapter 4?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1956.

6. Why is Howard fired from his job?
(a) Corrupt behavior.
(b) Chronic tardiness.
(c) The company was sold.
(d) Poor attendance.

7. What does Jules struggle with after Howard's funeral?
(a) Jules now has to care for his mother and sisters.
(b) Jules can't remember anything about his father.
(c) Jules feels guilty for not being more upset.
(d) Jules needs a male role model.

8. Who is Betty?
(a) Loretta's friend.
(b) Howard's sister.
(c) Maureen's cousin.
(d) Loretta's younger daughter.

9. How did Bernard make most of his money?
(a) The business he owned.
(b) An item he invented.
(c) His involvement in the Detroit mob.
(d) An inheritance.

10. Why do Jules, Maureen, and Betty fail to bond with their parents?
(a) Their pervasive financial problems don't leave much time for bonding.
(b) Loretta blames her children for her financial problems.
(c) Loretta never wanted to have children.
(d) Loretta's children blame her for the abuse they suffered at the hands of Mrs. Wendall.

11. What pretense does Jules use to visit Nadine?
(a) He delivers some of her uncle's possessions to her.
(b) He visits her sister.
(c) He needs to ask her questions about her uncle's estate.
(d) He delivers flowers to her.

12. What happens to Jules at school?
(a) He falls in love with a nun.
(b) He is paddled by a teacher.
(c) He is suspended for starting a fight.
(d) He is beaten up for trying to steal someone's lunch.

13. Who is Rita?
(a) Loretta's daughter.
(b) Bernie's niece.
(c) Loretta's friend.
(d) Howard's sister.

14. Where does Loretta go with her children while Howard is gone?
(a) Overseas to be with Howard.
(b) Nowhere; she stays with Mrs. Wendall.
(c) Back to Detroit.
(d) To Texas, to start a new life.

15. During what years does the novel take place?
(a) 1967 to 1987.
(b) 1917 to 1937.
(c) 1957 to 1977.
(d) 1937 to 1967.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children react to Howard's death?

2. When Pat comes home after witnessing Maureen's actions, what does he do?

3. Why does Maureen need money immediately?

4. Why is Mrs. Wendall placed in a nursing home?

5. What are the rumors circulating about Loretta at the beginning of the novel?

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