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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What separates Brewster Place from a new business district?
(a) Prejudice
(b) A wall
(c) A one-way street
(d) A high fence

2. What does Mattie notice about her apartment?
(a) It needs new windows
(b) It is much too small
(c) It is painted a horrible color
(d) It will not get much sun

3. Who replaced the Mediterraneans when they moved out of Brewster Place?
(a) "Afric" children
(b) Hispanic families
(c) Asian families
(d) Irish families

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

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

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

7. The people of Brewster Place could be called a _________________.
(a) micro-society
(b) accident waiting to happen
(c) community
(d) disaster

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

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

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

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

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

13. About what does Mattie secretly wonder?
(a) Miss Eva's husbands
(b) What happened to Butch
(c) Evolution vs. Creation
(d) Why she does not miss a man in her bed

14. What will Mattie not tell her father about her unborn child?
(a) The name of the father
(b) Names she has picked out
(c) The sex of the child
(d) The due date

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of this book?

2. "Maybe it just _____________ like a heavy load."

3. Why does Mattie move into Brewster Place?

4. Why is Miss Eva scolding Mattie?

5. Where does Mattie find comfort in her life?

(see the answer keys)

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