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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following distinctive characteristics did this new group not have?
(a) Religion
(b) Codes
(c) Smells
(d) Foods

2. What does the author want the reader to understand?
(a) What she is trying to convey about the characters
(b) What she went through to write this book
(c) What she hopes to achieve in life
(d) What she experienced as a girl

3. What is Brewster Place?
(a) A community center
(b) A series of tenement apartments
(c) A boutique hotel
(d) A shopping center

4. Who is the author of the Opening Poem?
(a) Gloria Naylor
(b) Langston Hughes
(c) Shel Silverstein
(d) Sylvia Plath

5. About what did Ben mumble?
(a) The price of wine
(b) Taxes
(c) An unfaithful wife and lame daughter
(d) The political process

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ben's occupation?

2. What is the subject of the Opening Poem?

3. What is one of the literary elements that the author uses throughout the book?

4. Who replaced the Mediterraneans when they moved out of Brewster Place?

5. The people of Brewster Place could be called a _________________.

(see the answer key)

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