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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Miss Eva scolding Mattie?
(a) For not getting a better job
(b) For gaining too much weight
(c) For not watching Basil
(d) For not looking for a husband

2. Who does Mattie's father blame for her pregnancy?
(a) The deacon
(b) Butch
(c) Mattie
(d) Himself

3. How does Mattie's mother stop Mattie's father's rage?
(a) She calls the police
(b) She hits him with a frying pan
(c) She fires a shotgun blast
(d) She whacks him with a board

4. Who does Mattie go to visit a week later?
(a) The church deacon
(b) Her grandmother
(c) Butch's cousin, Emma
(d) Her friend, Etta

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

6. "Or does it _____________?"
(a) implode
(b) swirl
(c) wither
(d) explode

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

8. 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

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

10. The hopes for Brewster Place lie in _________________________ of the city.
(a) eternal optimism
(b) propserous growth
(c) a government edict
(d) a last resort

11. Why does Mattie move into Brewster Place?
(a) She needs assisted living
(b) She needs to be around people
(c) She wants a smaller place
(d) She lost her home to a bail bondsman

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

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

14. Who is the story about?
(a) Professors
(b) Various women
(c) Schoolchildren
(d) Dock workers

15. What does Basil tell Mattie?
(a) He has killed a man
(b) He needs a ride home
(c) He needs money
(d) The store is out of strawberries

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of this book?

2. What has Mattie brought with her from her last house?

3. The new tenants "clung to the _______________ with a desperate acceptance."

4. Mattie notes that her son is looking just like whom?

5. The thought of _________________ convinces Mattie to go with Butch.

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