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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The thought of _________________ convinces Mattie to go with Butch.
(a) fresh cane molasses
(b) defying her mother
(c) kissing Butch
(d) fresh herbs for dinner

2. Who is the author of this book?
(a) Harper Lee
(b) Oprah Winfrey
(c) Halle Berry
(d) Gloria Naylor

3. Who is the author of the Opening Poem?
(a) Langston Hughes
(b) Shel Silverstein
(c) Sylvia Plath
(d) Gloria Naylor

4. To what city does Mattie travel?
(a) Beaufort, South Carolina
(b) Asheville, North Carolina
(c) Clayton, Georgia
(d) Eastman, Georgia

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

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

7. What is Ben's occupation?
(a) Milkman
(b) Policeman
(c) Maintenance man
(d) Minister

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

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

10. Where does Basil spend the next two weeks?
(a) Helping Mattie at her house
(b) In jail
(c) At a halfway house
(d) In a drug treatment center

11. Where does Basil live at the end of the chapter?
(a) In Mattie's house
(b) In an apartment complex
(c) In a dorm
(d) In a condo

12. How old is Basil at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 8

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

14. What kind of company employs Mattie?
(a) Bookbindery
(b) Auto manufacturing
(c) Pharmace
(d) Food processing

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What bites Basil's cheek one night?

2. What does Basil want from Mattie?

3. Miss Eva says men just do not agree with her like _______________.

4. What does Mattie's father consider her to be?

5. What does Mattie's father want the answer to #55 to do?

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