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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who do Mattie and Butch encounter on the road to the field?
(a) The church deacon
(b) Butch's mother
(c) Mattie's father
(d) The mayor

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

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

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

6. What bites Basil's cheek one night?
(a) A dog
(b) A child
(c) A rat
(d) A mosquito

7. Who does Mattie's father believe is the father of Mattie's unborn child?
(a) Jamie
(b) Fred
(c) Butch
(d) Marlon

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

9. Why does the author use these literary elements?
(a) To help the reader understand
(b) To make the book more appealing to more people
(c) To make the book easier to read
(d) To make the book more entertaining

10. "Or fester ________________ and then run?"
(a) forever
(b) like an insult
(c) like a sore
(d) for days

11. Where is Brewster place located?
(a) The desert
(b) A poor, worthless part of town
(c) An upscale area
(d) The country

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

13. What did Mattie's father do when she was sick?
(a) Sat with her for 24 hours a day for a week
(b) Took her to the emergency room
(c) Made herbal tea for her
(d) Took her to the clinic

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

15. Mattie knows that Basil is ____________________.
(a) charming
(b) ambitious
(c) aggressive
(d) irresponsible

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of this book?

2. What does Mattie do for Basil this evening?

3. What does Mattie's father do to her to coerce her to name the baby's father?

4. What does Basil tell Mattie during this time?

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

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