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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Jules so anxious at the bank when cashing Bernard's checks?
(a) Jules is waiting for his accomplice to rob the bank.
(b) He doesn't believe that the checks are real.
(c) Jules is afraid he will be robbed.
(d) Jules has forged the check amounts.

3. Who is Jules?
(a) Howard's brother.
(b) Loretta's nephew.
(c) Loretta's oldest son.
(d) Brock's brother.

4. Who is Brock, in relation to Loretta?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her cousin.

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

6. What does Loretta discover when she visits her father after moving away?
(a) That he has gotten remarried.
(b) That he has been institutionalized.
(c) That he has been killed.
(d) That he is missing.

7. How does Loretta feel about Howard's absence?
(a) She is lost without him.
(b) She misses him, but is able to cope.
(c) She does not miss him, surprisingly.
(d) She is angry at him, and glad he is gone.

8. Why does Maureen need money immediately?
(a) To buy a gun.
(b) To get out of her parents' house.
(c) To make a deposit for her college application.
(d) To pay Pat's bookie.

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

10. Who is Maureen?
(a) Brock's aunt.
(b) Howard's sister.
(c) Mrs. Wendall's niece.
(d) Loretta's older daughter.

11. Why is the person Loretta goes to unable to help her?
(a) Because they are already living in someone else's home.
(b) Because her husband doesn't welcome strangers.
(c) Because they have no place to live themselves.
(d) Because they are in the hospital.

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

13. What happens to Maureen's notebook?
(a) It is stolen.
(b) Her little sister destroys it.
(c) She loses it.
(d) Her mother throws it away.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jules do when he finds Bernard?

2. What sort of relationship does Betty have with her brother and sister?

3. What happens to Jules on one of the nights when he runs away?

4. What does Jules want to do with his own children?

5. How old is Loretta at the beginning of the novel?

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