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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Pastorale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Selina think that babies are born by cutting the mother's stomach open?
(a) Because she has read it in a medical book.
(b) Because that is what Ina had told her.
(c) Because Selina has a younger sibling who was born in that manner.
(d) Because that had been the way that Virgie had delivered her baby--by Caesarean section.

2. What does Mary think that Maritze's focus should be?
(a) Making more friends.
(b) Finding a new home.
(c) Getting a job.
(d) Finding a husband.

3. Where do people in the story go for fun on a Saturday night?
(a) Greenwich Village.
(b) Fulton Street.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Central Park.

4. How does Maritze react to Suggie's lovers staying over?
(a) She bangs on the wall between their apartments.
(b) She wants to move away.
(c) She screams.
(d) She tries to kill them.

5. Who is not in the Boyce family photograph?
(a) Selina.
(b) Ina.
(c) The son.
(d) Silla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Miss Thompson not go to the doctor?

2. When they get to the park, where do Beryl and Selina go?

3. How old is Selina at the opening of the book?

4. In Book 1, Chapter 3, what do Suggie and her date drink?

5. What do Selina and Beryl argue about in Book 2?

(see the answer key)

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