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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Theresa attribute Lorraine's new assertiveness?
(a) Attention from a man
(b) Psychiatrist visits
(c) Assertiveness training
(d) Spending time with Ben

2. What had Lorraine's father done when he found out Lorraine is a lesbian?
(a) Cut her out of his will
(b) Kicked her out of the house
(c) Beat her severely
(d) Quit going to church

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

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

5. What is Maggie's nickname for Etta?
(a) Tut
(b) Edible
(c) Oughta
(d) Jetta

6. With which of the following items do the women not chip away the brick wall?
(a) Shoe heels
(b) Rake
(c) Bare hands
(d) Knives

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

8. Cora Lee's father declares that there will be no more baby dolls when Cora Lee turns ____________.
(a) 21
(b) 18
(c) 10
(d) 13

9. Where does Eugene say he is going for a job?
(a) Alabama
(b) Michigan
(c) Georgia
(d) Maine

10. Who does Lorraine encounter when walking home from a party?
(a) Sophie
(b) Ben
(c) Cora Lee
(d) C.C. Baker and his gang

11. Which of the following is not one of the odors wiped away when a street dies?
(a) Hope
(b) Caring
(c) Lust
(d) Jealousy

12. Who visits Ben on this morning?
(a) Eugene
(b) Etta
(c) Mattie
(d) Ciel

13. Who is Ciel?
(a) Mattie's daughter
(b) The woman who lives with Eugene
(c) Ben's mother
(d) Etta's sister

14. What will happen to the women of Brewster Place?
(a) They will move out willingly
(b) They will build another complex
(c) They will move to another neighborhood
(d) They will fight to keep their home

15. According to Etta, "All the good men are either dead or _______________________."
(a) priests
(b) married to someone else
(c) waiting to be born
(d) gay

Short Answer Questions

1. What social event occurs at Brewster Place shortly after Ben's death?

2. The women realize that the fluid on the bricks is ___________ not blood.

3. What prevents the people of Brewster Place from congregating at the wall to discuss Ben's death?

4. Which character returns to Mattie's life in Chapter 3?

5. What does Cora Lee refer to as "the thing in the dark"?

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