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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joe begin to feel distanced from Violet?
(a) She is having an extramarital affair.
(b) She tells him she wants to get a divorce.
(c) He senses that she longs for a child.
(d) She begins to drink excessively.

2. What does Alice Manfred do for a living?
(a) She is a seamstress.
(b) Cooks in a nearby restaurant.
(c) Cleans wealthy people's homes.
(d) She is a nurse for a black doctor.

3. Who moves to Chicago?
(a) Sweetness, Malvonne's nephew.
(b) Violet.
(c) True Belle.
(d) Rose Dear.

4. What does the author suppose Violet does while Joe is looking out the window and crying?
(a) Cook breakfast for him.
(b) Pack up her belongings and leave.
(c) Set his hair on fire.
(d) Put her arms around him and comfort him.

5. What are the Civic Daughters planning when Joe delivers the cosmetics?
(a) A Thanksgiving fundraiser.
(b) An Easter Egg hunt.
(c) The debutante ball.
(d) Dorcas's engagement party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dorcas put on Joe's hands?

2. What does True Belle hope Vera Louise does with the extra money her mother gives her?

3. What is True Belle's relationship to Violet?

4. What happens to Dorcas's mother?

5. Where does Vera Louise go until she has the baby?

(see the answer key)

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