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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Selina, Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of job do most immigrant women in the story have?
(a) Waitressing.
(b) Doing laundry.
(c) Cleaning houses.
(d) Raising chickens.

2. In Book 3, how does Silla carry out her plan to get money for a house?
(a) She divorces her husband and marries another man.
(b) She forces her husband to sell the land.
(c) She kills her husband and inherits the land.
(d) She forges her husband's signature and writes to his sister.

3. In Book 1, Chapter 3, what do Suggie and her date drink?
(a) Rum.
(b) Milk.
(c) Soda.
(d) Gin.

4. What does Beryl tell Selina will happen to her if she does not menstruate by the time that she turns 20 years of age?
(a) That she will get fat.
(b) That she will die.
(c) That she will be shunned.
(d) That she will lose her hair.

5. What does Selina think that her mother wishes that she were?
(a) Smarter.
(b) Older, so that she could work.
(c) Taller.
(d) A boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the main issues that the Boyce family faces?

2. Why are the children at Miss Thompson's hungry?

3. Who does Selina meet on her way out of her first Association meeting?

4. What is the relationship between Suggie and Selina?

5. What happened to Miss Thompson years before, during her youth?

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