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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 is the formal name of Audre's friend Ginger?
(a) Veronica.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Joan.
(d) Georgina.

2. What year is it in Chapter 27?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1972.

3. Whom does Audre describe as being a beautiful writer?
(a) Ella.
(b) Muriel.
(c) Frieda.
(d) Lynn.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What college was Eudora the first woman to attend?

2. What is the name of Audre's straight friend whom she admits her affair with Muriel to?

3. What is the name of the woman Audre begins an affair with in Chapter 24?

4. How does Audre feel after hearing Muriel and her old friend making love one night?

5. Where does Audre first go once moving to Stamford?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Audre to drop out of college?

2. What does Audre do after finding out her father had a stroke?

3. How is Audre's near-rape described in Chapter 23?

4. How is Audre's mental state described after she moves to Stamford?

5. How is Audre's peak in her lesbianism described after she drops out of college?

6. What is the nature of the piece of writing of Muriel's that Audre finds in Chapter 28?

7. How is the character Eudora first described in the book?

8. How is Audre's relationship with Muriel first described in the book?

9. How does Audre describe Stamford, Connecticut when she first moves there?

10. How does Audre's friend Lynn cause problems between her and Muriel when she moves in with them?

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