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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kiswana realize about her mother's physical appearance?
(a) She has colored her hair
(b) She has her toenails polished
(c) She has lost weight
(d) She has pierced ears

2. What does Ciel think about her baby?
(a) She thinks she looks like Eugene
(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 worries about her future

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

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

5. The women realize that the fluid on the bricks is ___________ not blood.
(a) Motor oil
(b) Coca-Cola
(c) Ketchup
(d) rain

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

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

8. About what does Mattie lightly chide Cora Lee?
(a) Taking voice lessons
(b) Learning to cook
(c) Stop making babies
(d) Cutting her hair

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

10. What is Kiswana's birth name?
(a) Melody
(b) Marianne
(c) Melanie
(d) Mimi

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

12. Which of the following items does Theresa not throw at Sophie across the air shaft?
(a) Soda
(b) Onions
(c) Eggs
(d) Peppers

13. What purpose does the Shakespeare play have for Cora Lee?
(a) An imaginary experience
(b) A catalyst to change her life
(c) A lesson in tolerance
(d) A pleasant evening out

14. What do the children of Brewster Place take with them when they leave?
(a) Bad memories
(b) The clothes on their backs
(c) Dreams
(d) Bricks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Lorraine's father done when he found out Lorraine is a lesbian?

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

3. What object do the women pass around the table until someone throws it onto the street?

4. What food has been prepared from Ciel's grandmother's recipe?

5. What does the person in #122 ask Ben?

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