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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, The War, Chapters 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sets Miss Mary apart from the other tenants?
(a) She has a car.
(b) She is White.
(c) She owns the brownstone.
(d) She is Selina's father's employer.

2. After accounting, what does Deighton decide to do for a living?
(a) Play the trumpet.
(b) Become a policeman.
(c) Drive trolleys.
(d) Play the piano.

3. When they get to the park, where do Beryl and Selina go?
(a) To the ice cream stand.
(b) To the library.
(c) To the zoo.
(d) To the clothing store.

4. Who does Deighton see on his way to visit his mistress?
(a) His mother.
(b) Yearwood.
(c) Miss Mary.
(d) The police.

5. In Book 1, Chapter 3, what is Deighton's latest idea for making money?
(a) Selling voodoo dolls.
(b) Making rum.
(c) Chopping wood.
(d) Accounting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is not in the Boyce family photograph?

2. What gift does Deighton have for Selina after cashing the land sale check?

3. What does Silla think of Selina?

4. Why did parents avoid teaching their daughters about sex in the early part of the 20th Century?

5. What does Silla tell her daughters that she did as a child?

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