2. What does Felice say Dorcas does for Acton?
(a) Sells her car.
(b) Cuts her hair.
(c) Murders her friend.
(d) Buy him presents.

3. What does Violet Felice carry as she climbs the stairs?
(a) Some jewelry and iced tea.
(b) Some bags and boxes.
(c) A record and some stew.
(d) A photo and a guitar.

4. When does Golden Gray find out who his father is?
(a) When he is eighteen.
(b) When he is on his deathbed.
(c) He never finds out.
(d) The age of two.

5. Who does Dorcas tell her friends attacks her?
(a) She does not tell them.
(b) Joe.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

6. Who wipes the blood from the woman's face?
(a) The woman wipes her own face.
(b) A young black boy caring for Lestory's stock.
(c) Golden Gray.
(d) An unidentified character.

7. What sort of person does Dorcas want to be with?
(a) Someone older and refined.
(b) Someone young and admirable.
(c) Someone sweet and caring.
(d) Someone funny and generous.

8. What does True Belle sew to the hem of her dress?
(a) A picture of her daughter.
(b) Twenty-two years' wages.
(c) Her fine silver.
(d) A one-dollar bill.

9. What do Joe or Violet do after supper near the end of the story?
(a) Wash dishes.
(b) Call their parents.
(c) Play poker.
(d) Go for a walk.

10. What is the true reason Dorcas breaks up with Joe?
(a) She has too much power over him.
(b) She feels intimidated by him.
(c) Her parents forbid her from seeing him.
(d) She is ready to go to college.

11. What is Felice's response to Violet's invitation?
(a) She hugs Violet.
(b) She accepts.
(c) She ignores Violet.
(d) She says she never eats Violet's food.

12. Why does Alice move back to Springfield?
(a) She is too sad staying in Harlem.
(b) She is running from the Harlem police.
(c) She falls in love with a man there.
(d) To work for a white woman she knows.

13. What reason does the ambulance staff give for their delayed arrival?
(a) Ice.
(b) Thunderstorms.
(c) Traffic.
(d) They do not give a reason.

14. What, in Dorcas's mind, is wrong with Joe?
(a) He has no sensitive side.
(b) He has no musical talent.
(c) He is cognitively impaired.
(d) He adores Dorcas, no matter what she does.

15. What day of the week does Violet invite Felice to dinner?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) The narrator does not tell us.
(c) Friday.
(d) Monday.