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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. What does Mattie do for Basil this evening?
(a) Cooks dinner
(b) Cleans his room
(c) Mends his shirts
(d) Irons his clothes
2. What season is it when Mattie Michael moves into Brewster Place?
(a) Fall
(b) Summer
(c) Winter
(d) Spring
3. The author challenges the reader to think in terms of ________________ when encountering the women's stories.
(a) high moral standards
(b) dreams unrealized
(c) false expectations
(d) human foibles
4. What does Mattie's father want the answer to #55 to do?
(a) Marry Mattie
(b) Move into their house
(c) Pay for an abortion
(d) Repent for his sins
5. What does Mattie's father consider her to be?
(a) A mistake
(b) A burden
(c) His pride and joy
(d) A bundle of contradictions
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Mattie's father do when she was sick?
2. What is the subject of the Opening Poem?
3. From where did many of these new tenants migrate?
4. What does Basil tell Mattie during this time?
5. Why is Miss Eva scolding Mattie?
Short Essay Questions
1. The theme of baptism is an important one in the book. Explain why the rain that starts on the day of Ben's funeral is so significant.
2. What theme of the book does Mattie embody?
3. Explain how Basil is a product of his upbringing even though Mattie thought she was raising him the right way.
4. What is the ultimate moral of this story?
5. Explain Kiswana's situation and how it contrasts with her family background.
6. How does the author use the literary technique of a flashback in Chapter 2, Part 1?
7. On what grounds do Ben and Lorraine form an unlikely friendship?
8. How are Mattie and Ciel's lives the same? How are they different?
9. Explain the circumstances of Basil's arrest and his manipulation of Mattie while incarcerated.
10. Describe Cora Lee's obsession with babies.
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