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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many husbands has the answer to #69 had?
2. What did Basil do to the police officer?
3. Who does Mattie's father blame for her pregnancy?
4. What does Mattie tell her father about the father of her unborn child?
5. "Does it dry up like ____________________?"
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the third generation of people to move into Brewster Place.
2. Compare and contrast Etta and Mattie.
3. Explain the circumstances of Basil's arrest and his manipulation of Mattie while incarcerated.
4. According to the author, what happens when a street dies?
5. What is Cora Lee's background?
6. How does Mattie become the voice of what is right and fair when the other women are antagonistic toward Theresa and Lorraine?
7. Explain how Basil is a product of his upbringing even though Mattie thought she was raising him the right way.
8. Describe the topic of the Opening Poem.
9. Cite instances that support the theme of mentoring women in the book.
10. According to the author, what happens when a dream dies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Etta longs for respectability yet sleeps with a traveling minister on the night she meets him. Did Etta think she was putting her heart in a safe place? What is the irony in this situation? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Describe Mattie. What is her physical appearance. What emotional traits does she have? Why does she become the matriarch for the women of Brewster Place?
Essay Topic 3
In his poem, Langston Hughes asks, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?" Cite examples from the book that support each of these scenarios.
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