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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What social cause does Audre discuss her involvement in, in Chapter 20?
(a) Committee to Free the Rosenbergs.
(b) McCarthyism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Protests against the war.

2. What does Audre burn her hand on after her relationship with Muriel begins falling apart?
(a) The stove.
(b) A candle.
(c) Acid.
(d) Boiling water.

3. Where does Audre take classes while in Mexico?
(a) The College of Arts.
(b) College Cuernavaca.
(c) Ciudad Universitaria.
(d) Mexico University.

4. What kind of business does Eudora own?
(a) A candle shop.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A bookstore.
(d) A bar.

5. Which of the following descriptions is not given of Audre's work performance in Chapter 19?
(a) Earns many bonuses.
(b) Outstrips other employees.
(c) Saves money.
(d) Performs poorly.

6. Where does Audre first go once moving to Stamford?
(a) The Black Community Center.
(b) A factory.
(c) A housing community.
(d) A local bar.

7. What is the program that Muriel enlists in a hospital meant to help cure?
(a) Cancer patients.
(b) Suicide risk.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Drug addicts.

8. How does Audre feel after first moving to Stamford?
(a) Empowered.
(b) Excited.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Happy.

9. What kind of friends does Audre say told her that her blackness made her partly invisible?
(a) White.
(b) English.
(c) Irish.
(d) Jewish.

10. Whom does Audre spend too much time with that leads to her failing subjects in college?
(a) The Branded.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Peter.
(d) The writer's guild members.

11. Where does Audre find a job as an x-ray machine operator?
(a) General Electric.
(b) Stamford Hospital.
(c) Keystone Electronics.
(d) Manchester Lighting.

12. Who desegregates schools after McCarthy is censured?
(a) Congress.
(b) The Supreme Court.
(c) The President.
(d) The House of Representatives.

13. How old is Audre when she moves to Mexico?
(a) 20.
(b) 18.
(c) 22.
(d) 19.

14. What do Audre and Muriel find they feel towards the woman who comes to live with them?
(a) Love.
(b) Shame.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Hatred.

15. What is the name of Audre's old college friend whom she mourns the Rosenbergs with?
(a) Kitty.
(b) Bea.
(c) Ella.
(d) Lynn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country are the Rosenbergs accused of spying for?

2. Where does Audre begin making plans to go to that she knows Eudora won't follow her to?

3. What does Audre find that her friend Muriel is more so than Audre is?

4. Which of the following qualities does Audre not say she struggles to have accepted by American society?

5. What is the relationship between Ginger and Cora in the book?

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