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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mattie says that she has loved some women deeper than she has loved ________________.
(a) her child
(b) any man
(c) her parents
(d) her religion

2. What prevents the people of Brewster Place from congregating at the wall to discuss Ben's death?
(a) Snowstorms
(b) C.C. Baker
(c) Police orders
(d) Unrelenting rain

3. Who is the most outspoken person at Brewster Place against Lorraine and Theresa?
(a) Sophie
(b) Kiswana
(c) Mattie
(d) Etta

4. Which character returns to Mattie's life in Chapter 3?
(a) Sophie Williams
(b) Etta Mae Johnson
(c) Julia Johnson
(d) Marlon Michaels

5. Which of the following best describes Kiswana Browne?
(a) Depressed
(b) Sullen
(c) Fatalistic
(d) Imaginative

6. What does Ciel think about her baby?
(a) She worries about her future
(b) She is the most beautiful thing she has ever seen
(c) She is the only thing she has ever loved without pain
(d) She thinks she looks like Eugene

7. Who does Kiswana see from her apartment window?
(a) Ben
(b) Mattie
(c) Her mother
(d) Teenagers

8. Whose funeral is Eugene going to attend?
(a) His mother's
(b) His ex-wife's
(c) His baby daughter's
(d) His best friend's

9. What is Mattie exasperated with Etta?
(a) She will not pay her part of the utilities
(b) She has wrecked her car again
(c) She makes a date with the traveling minister
(d) She will not look for a job

10. What does Kiswana find Cora Lee's son, Sammy, doing?
(a) Running with scissors
(b) Eating out of the garbage cans
(c) Playing with matches
(d) Playing in the street

11. What does Etta call her relationships with men?
(a) Bane of her existence
(b) A thrill a minute
(c) Business opportunities
(d) Last chances

12. Which of the following is not necessarily part of a bouquet of a person's life?
(a) Position in the family
(b) What a person has known
(c) A willingness to accept and give love
(d) The choices a person makes

13. What act of comfort does Mattie provide for Ciel?
(a) A cup of tea
(b) A massage
(c) A hot meal
(d) A warm bath

14. What does the end of the chapter reveal about the events taking place in this chapter?
(a) Cora Lee has made everything up
(b) Basil has been shot and killed
(c) Ben is not really dead
(d) It has all been a dream of Mattie's

15. What does Mattie tell Etta that Etta needs?
(a) A husband
(b) A bigger house
(c) A good job
(d) A facelift

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lorraine encounter when walking home from a party?

2. How does Serena die?

3. What does Mattie realize when she wakes up?

4. When did Coral Lee have her first child?

5. What do unrealized dreams become for women?

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