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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the story about?
(a) Dock workers
(b) Schoolchildren
(c) Various women
(d) Professors

2. Brewster Place was especially fond of its ________________________.
(a) architecture
(b) family fun nights
(c) colored daughters
(d) landscaping

3. "Does it stink like _________________?"
(a) old shoes
(b) a locker room
(c) a garbage pail
(d) rotten meat

4. What is the nationality of people now moving into the neighborhood?
(a) English
(b) Mediterranean
(c) Asian
(d) Spanish

5. "Or does it _____________?"
(a) explode
(b) wither
(c) implode
(d) swirl

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brewster Place?

2. Which of the following distinctive characteristics did this new group not have?

3. The hopes for Brewster Place lie in _________________________ of the city.

4. What does the Opening Poem tell the reader the book will be about?

5. The new tenants "clung to the _______________ with a desperate acceptance."

(see the answer key)

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