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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Mattie's father not speaking to her?
(a) She is pregnant
(b) She cursed at him
(c) She stopped going to church
(d) She quit school

2. "Or crust over like ____________________?"
(a) maple candy
(b) caramel candy
(c) maple syrup
(d) syrupy sweet

3. What does Mattie do when Miss Eva dies?
(a) Leaves for Harlem
(b) Buys Miss Eva's house
(c) Moves back home
(d) Has Miss Eva cremated

4. The author challenges the reader to think in terms of ________________ when encountering the women's stories.
(a) high moral standards
(b) human foibles
(c) dreams unrealized
(d) false expectations

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

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

7. What song does Ben sing when he is drinking?
(a) "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
(b) "We Are Family"
(c) "She's a Brick House"
(d) "Who Let the Dogs Out"

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

9. Mattie is so angry she wants to ______________________.
(a) smother the old woman in her sleep
(b) slap the old woman senseless
(c) spit in the old woman's freakish blue eyes
(d) shoot the old woman

10. What does Mattie tell her father about the father of her unborn child?
(a) It is not Marlon's baby
(b) It is not Butch's baby
(c) It is not Fred's baby
(d) It is not Eddie's baby

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

12. What does Basil want from Mattie?
(a) A new car
(b) A good meal
(c) Unconditional love
(d) Bail money

13. What does Mattie's father consider her to be?
(a) A burden
(b) A mistake
(c) His pride and joy
(d) A bundle of contradictions

14. From where did many of these new tenants migrate?
(a) The South
(b) Texas
(c) California
(d) Washington

15. Where does Mattie's friend move for some excitement in her life?
(a) Charlotte
(b) Las Vegas
(c) Harlem
(d) Los Angeles

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the story about?

2. Mattie knows that Basil is ____________________.

3. What does the attorney advise Mattie regarding Basil's bail?

4. What does Mattie try to find the next day?

5. What is the subject of the Opening Poem?

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