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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Opening Poem tell the reader the book will be about?
(a) Dreams unrealized
(b) World peace
(c) Guilty pleasures
(d) Marriage and divorce

3. "Does it dry up like ____________________?"
(a) affections
(b) a raisin in the sun
(c) the desert
(d) yesterday's meat loaf

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

5. What has Mattie's father called Butch?
(a) An idiot
(b) A no-'count ditch hound
(c) Good for nothin'
(d) Not fit for decent company

Short Answer Questions

1. Brewster Place was especially fond of its ________________________.

2. "Does it stink like _________________?"

3. In what state did Mattie grow up?

4. "Or crust over like ____________________?"

5. What season is it when Mattie Michael moves into Brewster Place?

(see the answer key)

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