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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what did Ben mumble?
(a) Taxes
(b) The political process
(c) An unfaithful wife and lame daughter
(d) The price of wine

2. Who does Mattie's father blame for her pregnancy?
(a) Butch
(b) The deacon
(c) Mattie
(d) Himself

3. "What happens to a dream ___________?"
(a) deferred
(b) realized
(c) that dies
(d) crushed

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

5. What is another literary element that the author uses throughout the book?
(a) Nursery rhymes
(b) Song lyrics
(c) Church hymns
(d) TV jingles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie try to find the next day?

2. What serious illness did Mattie have when she was little?

3. What has Mattie brought with her from her last house?

4. Miss Eva says men just do not agree with her like _______________.

5. What is the subject of the Opening Poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. What life lessons is the author imparting through Mattie, Miss Eva and Etta at this point of the story?

2. How does the theme of learning to be happy with what you have exhibit in Kiswana's life?

3. Describe Cora Lee's obsession with babies.

4. Describe the topic of the Opening Poem.

5. Who is Butch and why is Mattie so attracted to him?

6. How does Basil symbolize most of the men encountered by the women of Brewster Place?

7. What are the possibilities for a dream deferred as asked in Langston Hughes' poem?

8. Has Kiswana let her daydreaming run to the extreme? Explain.

9. How does Cora Lee differ in her view of the necessity of having a man?

10. What theme of the book does Mattie embody?

(see the answer keys)

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