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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. Why does Mattie move into Brewster Place?
(a) She needs to be around people
(b) She lost her home to a bail bondsman
(c) She wants a smaller place
(d) She needs assisted living

2. What does the author want the reader to understand?
(a) What she experienced as a girl
(b) What she hopes to achieve in life
(c) What she went through to write this book
(d) What she is trying to convey about the characters

3. Who is the last grandchild of the person in #69?
(a) Lucinda
(b) Lucielia
(c) Lori
(d) Lu Ann

4. Why does the author use these literary elements?
(a) To make the book more entertaining
(b) To help the reader understand
(c) To make the book more appealing to more people
(d) To make the book easier to read

5. Who is the only boy Mattie's father approves of spending time with Mattie?
(a) Jay Wilkes
(b) Jimmy Jones
(c) Fred Wilson
(d) Marlon Dupree

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mattie tell her father about the father of her unborn child?

2. What is the demographic of the area where Brewster Place is located?

3. The new tenants "clung to the _______________ with a desperate acceptance."

4. Where is Brewster place located?

5. "Or does it _____________?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Cora Lee's obsession with babies.

2. Explain Mattie's pain at the realization of Basil's cruelty toward her.

3. Who is Etta Mae Johnson?

4. How does Mattie show more maturity even though she is younger than Etta?

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

6. According to the author, what happens when a dream dies?

7. How does Theresa finally realize that she is part of the women of Brewster Place in spite of the differences people tried to create?

8. On what grounds do Ben and Lorraine form an unlikely friendship?

9. Explain how Mattie's father is different from the other men in the story and how Mattie has absorbed some of his qualities.

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

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