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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book 3, what does Silla say that she will do to get what she wants?
(a) Kick her husband out.
(b) Sell her husband's land.
(c) Make her husband get a job.
(d) Kill her husband.

2. In Book 3, what is Silla's reaction after hearing her father reminisce about courting her mother?
(a) She wonders whether she will ever find a husband.
(b) She has a hard time believing that her mother had ever been young and dancing.
(c) She wonders whether her father is making up the stories that he is telling.
(d) She thinks that her father is crazy.

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

4. What is the relationship between Mary and Maritze?
(a) Old lady and her nurse.
(b) Sisters.
(c) Roommates.
(d) Mother and daughter.

5. Why did parents avoid teaching their daughters about sex in the early part of the 20th Century?
(a) Because they wanted to scare the girls.
(b) Because they knew that girls would never get married if they did not have knowledge about sex.
(c) Because they thought that the girls would not have sex if they did not know about it.
(d) Because they thought that girls were evil.

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

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

8. Why are the children at Miss Thompson's hungry?
(a) Because they do not have a mother.
(b) Because their mother Is out at a party.
(c) Because they refused to beg for food.
(d) Because they do not know how to cook.

9. When Suggie gives Selina some rum to drink in Book 2, what does she tell Selina that the rum will do to her?
(a) Turn her into a sexy woman.
(b) Turn her into a happy woman.
(c) Turn her into a forgetful woman.
(d) Turn her into a summer woman.

10. What does Selina see at the park in Book 2?
(a) Lovers displaying affection toward each other.
(b) Babies nursing.
(c) Her sister with a boy.
(d) Birds mating.

11. What is Selina's sister's name?
(a) Maritze.
(b) Ina.
(c) Virgie.
(d) Mary.

12. How do others react when Selina tries to tell them about her mother's plan to sell her father's land?
(a) They tell her father.
(b) They tell her mother.
(c) They do not listen to her.
(d) They tell her that it is not any of her business.

13. In what part of New York does the Boyce family live?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Queens.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Little Italy.

14. Which of the following phrase best describes the relationship between Deighton and Silla?
(a) Brother and sister.
(b) Unhappy marriage.
(c) Father and daughter.
(d) Having an affair.

15. What type of mood does Silla have on that Monday morning as Deighton is leaving to go to the bank to cash his check?
(a) Cheerful.
(b) Loving.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Selina do as Beryl comforts her at the park in Book 2?

2. How does Selina feel when she realizes that her mother has not told her about the facts of life?

3. What is the name of Beryl's father?

4. With whom does Selina dance at the wedding?

5. What is the relationship between Selina and Beryl?

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