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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ingredient do Grandma and Mama send Ursa to the store to get when she is little?
(a) Milk.
(b) Cornmeal.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Flour.

2. What does Ursa's mother do that Ursa wants her to stop doing?
(a) Hiding secrets from her.
(b) Working for a white woman.
(c) Canning things for people.
(d) Living alone.

3. What happened to Cat while she was working?
(a) She was raped.
(b) Her hair was caught in a machine.
(c) Her arm was chopped off.
(d) She got a promotion.

4. What does Jeffrene ask Ursa to do during the last time they talk to one another?
(a) Admit that she is a lesbian.
(b) Lend her money.
(c) Go back to Mutt.
(d) Go and see Cat.

5. When Mutt and Ursa go back to the Drake together, what does Ursa do?
(a) She is intimate with Mutt.
(b) Sleep in each other's arms.
(c) Take a bath.
(d) Fight.

6. Finish the line: "He made them make love to anyone, so that they ______."
(a) Couldn't leave him.
(b) Couldn't love anyone.
(c) Wouldn't feel alone.
(d) Hated everyone else.

7. When May Alice finds out she is pregnant, where do she and Ursa go?
(a) To tell her mother right away.
(b) To the doctor.
(c) To sit in the wheat field.
(d) To another town.

8. What does Ursa's mother say about Ursa's necklace during her visit?
(a) It is too flashy.
(b) It will attract men.
(c) It makes her look like a gypsy.
(d) It is beautiful.

9. What did Mutt work with that he got tired of, prompting him to come back to Bracktown?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Corn.
(c) Sugar Cane.
(d) Tobacco.

10. In what way does Ursa think her mother telling her the story of her father will help her?
(a) Maybe she will find a man now.
(b) Maybe she will be able to face her past.
(c) Maybe she will be able to help Ursa with her fear of men.
(d) Maybe she will move in with Ursa now.

11. How does Ursa find out about her period when she is young?
(a) She sees bloody sheets and her mother tells her about it.
(b) She sees May Alice bleeding.
(c) Her mother warns her about it.
(d) She gets her period at an early age.

12. Who recognizes Ursa in the street when she goes back to her grandmother's funeral?
(a) Corregidora.
(b) Mr. Deak's mother.
(c) Mr. Deak.
(d) Mr. Floyd's mother.

13. What does Ursa's mother offer to make her when she comes to visit?
(a) A sandwich.
(b) Oatmeal.
(c) Soup.
(d) Scrambled eggs.

14. How does May Alice behave while the doctor examines her?
(a) She rolls her eyes the whole time.
(b) She is stoic throughout the experience.
(c) She yells at him the entire time.
(d) She cries the entire time.

15. What does Ursa say back to Mutt at the end of the novel?
(a) She could kill Mutt and not feel a thing.
(b) She will always hate Mutt.
(c) She does not want a man that would hurt her.
(d) She loves Mutt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ursa hear about the Melrose woman's suicide?

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

3. What does Mutt do to punish Ursa when he is angry with her when they are married?

4. What is Cats-Eye marble's favorite word?

5. How does Ursa's father treat her mother when they meet for the last time?

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