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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. Where does Mattie's friend move for some excitement in her life?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) Las Vegas
(c) Harlem
(d) Charlotte

2. What has Mattie brought with her from her last house?
(a) Plastic ferns
(b) Silk flowers
(c) Garden decorations
(d) Houseplants

3. What separates Brewster Place from a new business district?
(a) A wall
(b) A high fence
(c) Prejudice
(d) A one-way street

4. What does Mattie do for Basil this evening?
(a) Mends his shirts
(b) Cooks dinner
(c) Irons his clothes
(d) Cleans his room

5. What does Mattie's father do to her to coerce her to name the baby's father?
(a) Gives her money
(b) Beats her
(c) Threatens to disown her
(d) Bribes her with candy

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Mattie's father believe is the father of Mattie's unborn child?

3. Why is Mattie angry at Miss Eva?

4. Where does Basil spend the next two weeks?

5. What does Butch invite Mattie to do?

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 author choose to open the book?

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

4. Who is Etta Mae Johnson?

5. Explain Kiswana's situation and how it contrasts with her family background.

6. Explain how Butch's behavior with women foreshadows the lives of all the women to come in the story.

7. What is the fate of Cora Lee's babies as they begin to grow up?

8. How do the women of Brewster Place view Etta?

9. Describe how Brewster Place is separated from the city's growth.

10. What is Mattie's legacy to generations of women who will come after her?

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