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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the character in #97 carry under her arms?
(a) A bundle of clothes
(b) Newspapers
(c) Music albums
(d) A bunch of flowers

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

5. What do the women of Brewster Place learn about the women in question #145?
(a) They are lesbians
(b) They are sisters
(c) They are cousins
(d) They are co-workers

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

7. What does Kiswana accuse her father and mother of doing?
(a) Selling out to white brainwashing
(b) Beating her as a child
(c) Loving her brother more than her
(d) Denying her an education

8. What does Mattie realize when she wakes up?
(a) She is sleeping much more lately
(b) She is late for church
(c) It is too early to get up
(d) People are setting up for a block party

9. Who will Eugene not allow to watch Serena?
(a) Mattie
(b) Marge
(c) Ben
(d) Etta

10. Who helps to calm Lorraine down after the Brewster Place tenants' meeting?
(a) Ben
(b) Cora Lee
(c) Theresa
(d) Mattie

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

12. When did Coral Lee have her first child?
(a) As an eighth grader
(b) Just after high school graduation
(c) As a senior in high school
(d) As a sophomore in high school

13. What is the best way to have a good life?
(a) Travel all over the world
(b) Make as much money as possible
(c) Get a very big house
(d) Find a way to be happy with what you have

14. Where does Mattie invite Etta to go with her?
(a) A dance
(b) Shopping
(c) Church
(d) The movies

15. Why is Kiswana's mother especially exasperated with her?
(a) She wil not go to school
(b) She does not have a phone
(c) She is not married
(d) She will not visit more often

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Etta's intentions for the man she meets at church?

2. Who is the one who helps Ciel recover from her grief?

3. What does Mattie tell Etta that Etta needs?

4. What type of vehicle does the character in #97 arrive in at Brewster Place?

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

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