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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the literary elements that the author uses throughout the book?
(a) Newspaper articles
(b) Documentaries
(c) Poetry
(d) Historical documents

2. What was Mattie doing when Butch Fuller flirted with her as a girl?
(a) Washing the car
(b) Planting flowers
(c) Hanging out the laundry
(d) Feeding the chickens

3. What does Mattie name her newborn son?
(a) Sage
(b) Bobby
(c) Butch Jr.
(d) Basil

4. Who is the only boy Mattie's father approves of spending time with Mattie?
(a) Jimmy Jones
(b) Fred Wilson
(c) Marlon Dupree
(d) Jay Wilkes

5. What does Mattie's father want the answer to #55 to do?
(a) Repent for his sins
(b) Move into their house
(c) Pay for an abortion
(d) Marry Mattie

6. What is the subject of the Opening Poem?
(a) A wish
(b) A disappointment
(c) A betrayal
(d) A dream

7. What does the attorney advise Mattie regarding Basil's bail?
(a) Negotiate the amount
(b) Don't pay it
(c) Make Basil pay it
(d) Pay it immediately

8. What does Butch invite Mattie to do?
(a) Go to the movies
(b) Pick herbs and sugar cane
(c) Play baseball
(d) Go for a drive

9. What did Basil do to the police officer?
(a) Kicked him
(b) Broke his wrist
(c) Punched him in the gut
(d) Shot him

10. What has Miss Eva still not told Mattie after five years?
(a) How many children she has
(b) Why she murdered her second husband
(c) What the rent is
(d) What her real name is

11. Mattie notes that her son is looking just like whom?
(a) Mattie's father
(b) Fred
(c) Mattie
(d) Butch

12. What does Mattie carry as she and Butch walk to the field?
(a) Machete
(b) Bucket
(c) Knapsack
(d) Purse

13. Which of the following does not describe the black women of Brewster Place?
(a) Arrogant
(b) Brutally demanding
(c) Easily pleased
(d) Hard-edged

14. Mattie's father's love for her was _____________.
(a) sporadic
(b) unfulfilling
(c) painful
(d) legendary

15. What does Mattie try to find the next day?
(a) A new outfit
(b) Another room to rent
(c) A new job
(d) A doctor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie tell her father about the father of her unborn child?

2. "Or fester ________________ and then run?"

3. Who is the author of the Opening Poem?

4. "Does it dry up like ____________________?"

5. "Does it stink like _________________?"

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