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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where do May Alice and her mother eventually move?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Texas.
2. Where does the drunken man at the Spider work with whom Ursa sits down and talks to?
(a) Preston's.
(b) Happy's.
(c) Snapper's.
(d) The Drake.
3. What is the name of Ursa's father?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Martin.
(d) John.
4. What is Ursa's mother doing when Ursa comes to see her?
(a) Sweeping.
(b) Canning.
(c) Working in the garden.
(d) Washing laundry.
5. What is the name of the man who cuts hair in the town that Ursa's mother lives in?
(a) Mr. Costigan.
(b) Mr. Kiddo.
(c) Mr. Grundy.
(d) Mr. Finch.
Short Answer Questions
1. What prompts Ursa's mother to see Ursa's father for the last time?
2. What do Ursa and May Alice call her period?
3. Who is embarrassing Ursa while she works at the beginning of Chapter 5?
4. When Mutt and Ursa go to see a show together, where is the band from?
5. Who comes to warn Ursa that Mutt is back in town?
Short Essay Questions
1. What year is it at the beginning of Chapter 4? How old is Ursa?
2. How much older is Ursa's childhood friend, Mary Alice, than Ursa? What does she tell Ursa about, which she calls "bleeding?"
3. What does Jeffrene tell Ursa about Cat? What does she ask of Ursa?
4. What was the name of Ursa's father? Where did he and Ursa's mother meet?
5. What does Ursa's mother say that she learned from her last visit with Ursa's father? What does she say about relationships?
6. How many pregnancy scares does Mary Alice have? When she actually becomes pregnant, what does she tell Ursa?
7. What does Mutt say to Ursa at the end of the novel? What is Ursa's response?
8. What is the name of the boy that Mary Alice begins to have sex with? What does Mary Alice tell Ursa when Ursa says she should stop?
9. Why does Ursa go to Bracktown to see her mother? What does she bring her?
10. When Ursa comes to visit her mother, what is her mother doing? Why is she doing this?
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