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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Ursa when the man tries to pick her up?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Detroit.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Macomb.

2. What does Ursa's mother think about her singing?
(a) She thinks it is the devil's music.
(b) She wishes Ursa went professional.
(c) She does not speak to Ursa anymore because of it.
(d) She strongly supports Ursa.

3. With whom does Ursa tell tadpole she could have sung?
(a) Cab Calloway.
(b) Jack Benny.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Billie Holiday.

4. What does Mutt say to Ursa at the end of the novel?
(a) He does not want the kind of woman that would hurt him.
(b) He hates Ursa.
(c) He loves Ursa.
(d) He wants to be with Ursa forever.

5. What prompts Ursa's mother to follow Ursa's father to his apartment?
(a) He needed a coat.
(b) Ursa's mother misses her bus.
(c) He has a present for her.
(d) It was raining.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mutt and Ursa go to see a show together, where is the band from?

2. How old was Ursa when the Melrose woman committed suicide?

3. What consequence did the plantation wife face because of her actions with her white boss?

4. What does Tadpole say to Ursa when she asks him whether she should take the job at the Spider?

5. What is Mutt's last name?

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