Jazz Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Jazz Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe wipe his tears with?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His hands.
(c) Dorcas's picture.
(d) A red handkerchief.

2. What do Violet and Joe do all night the first time they meet?
(a) Eat.
(b) Fight.
(c) Talk.
(d) Dance.

3. When does Alice realize Dorcas and Joe are having an affair?
(a) Never.
(b) After Dorcas is dead.
(c) Thanksgiving dinner.
(d) The first night Dorcas and Joe meet.

4. What year does Joe and Violet move to the city?
(a) 1952.
(b) The author does not include a date.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1919.

5. What does Violet try to do to Dorcas's face?
(a) Make it look older.
(b) Apply more makeup.
(c) Make it look younger.
(d) Disfigure it with a knife.

6. How does Alice describe Dorcas?
(a) Beautiful but hardheaded.
(b) Plain but fun-loving.
(c) Funny but quiet.
(d) Ugly but pleasant.

7. What does Violet envision Joe giving Dorcas?
(a) An adopted baby.
(b) Underwear.
(c) Chinese food.
(d) Flowers.

8. Where does Dorcas insist Joe take her?
(a) A jazz club.
(b) New York City.
(c) The beauty parlor.
(d) The zoo.

9. How does Rose Dear eventually die?
(a) She dies of a heart attack.
(b) She convinces her boyfriend to kill her.
(c) She throws herself down a well.
(d) No one is sure.

10. What does Joe think about Adam and the Garden of Eden?
(a) He thinks Eve should never offer the fruit.
(b) He thinks Adam is incredibly stupid.
(c) He thinks the apple is worth the expulsion.
(d) He thinks it is all a made-up story.

11. What does Joe take with him to the park?
(a) A sandwich and his gun.
(b) His sample case of cosmetics.
(c) His walking cane.
(d) A picture of Dorcas.

12. What does Dorcas put on Joe's hands?
(a) White paint.
(b) Butter and sugar.
(c) Cream and clear nail polish.
(d) Aloe vera.

13. How much debt does Joe and Violet have on the land?
(a) $20,000.00.
(b) $1,800.00.
(c) $180.00.
(d) It is not clear.

14. Why does Joe want to stay near Dorcas after he shoots her?
(a) He wants her to die in his arms.
(b) He wants her to keep from falling.
(c) He doesn't want anyone else to touch her.
(d) He wants to be arrested and taken to prison.

15. Who understands, like Joe, what it feels like to feel nothing inside?
(a) Violet.
(b) Rose Dear.
(c) Alice.
(d) Dorcas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reaction from Joe's friends and family when he and Violet move to the city?

2. Why doesn't a fire truck intervene during the house fire in Dorcas's home?

3. Who moves to Chicago?

4. What does Joe see in Dorcas's picture?

5. Why is Dorcas rejected by teenage boys her own age?

(see the answer keys)

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