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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. What does Violet steal during one of her crazy episodes?
(a) A baby.
(b) Knives.
(c) Candy.
(d) A television.

2. How is Alice Manfred related to Dorcas?
(a) Dorcas is Alice's daughter.
(b) Alice and Dorcas are sisters.
(c) Alice is Dorcas's aunt.
(d) Alice and Dorcas are second cousins.

3. What does Violet regret when she turns forty?
(a) Getting married so early.
(b) Never having children.
(c) Not having been loved deeply enough.
(d) Not taking better care of her skin.

4. Why doesn't Violet sleep at night?
(a) The birds are gone.
(b) Joe snores loudly.
(c) She is awakened by nightmares.
(d) She sleeps too much during the day.

5. What is True Belle's relationship to Violet?
(a) She is Violet's school teacher.
(b) She is Violet's older sister.
(c) She is Violet's nanny.
(d) She is Violet's grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Malvonne want to make sure the young black girl's letter gets to the law school?

2. What does Violet find in the bottom of the parrot's cage?

3. Who does the best hunter choose to be his apprentices?

4. Why does Joe begin tracking Dorcas down with a gun?

5. How does Rose Dear eventually die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Alice Manfred and Dorcas.

2. Describe the time Joe sees Dorcas for the very first time.

3. Describe Violet's "crazy episodes" as they are presented in Chapter One.

4. Describe the relationship between Violet and Alice as presented in Chapter Three.

5. Describe what Violet does with the picture of Dorcas in Chapter One.

6. In what ways does Alice try to protect Dorcas?

7. What is the story the narrator gives behind Joe's last name?

8. How does the narrator describe the scene in which Violet attacks Dorcas's body?

9. Describe the death of Dorcas's mother.

10. In Chapter Two, what reason does the narrator give for Joe killing Dorcas?

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