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

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

3. What does Dorcas notice about Joe when he shoots her?
(a) He looks insane.
(b) He is crying.
(c) He looks like her father.
(d) He is unrecognizable.

4. What does Golden Gray ask Lestory?
(a) Why he never loves Golden Gray's mother.
(b) Why he is still single.
(c) Why Lestory never tries to contact him.
(d) Why he finds Golden Gray's mother so attractive.

5. What does Joe find near the cooking fire?
(a) Rope, wood, nails, and a hammer.
(b) Flour, sugar, and water.
(c) A dress, a doll, and a cigar case.
(d) Knives and guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe hear in the woods after fishing?

2. How old is Joe when the plantation burns?

3. Why do Joe and Violet go up on the roof together?

4. What does Golden Gray call Lestory when he sees him?

5. What day of the week does Violet invite Felice to dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the initial meeting between Golden Gray and his father in Chapter Seven.

2. What is your understanding of the relationship between Joe, Violet, and Felice in Chapters Nine and Ten?

3. What happens to the cotton plantation thirteen years after Golden Gray confronts his father?

4. In Chapter Nine, why does Felice come to visit Violet and Joe?

5. In Chapter Seven, why does Joe think Wild is his own mother?

6. In Chapter 10, why does Joe get a new job? Does this help his relationship with Violet?

7. Why does Dorcas break up with Joe?

8. Describe what Golden Gray sees in the forest as he approaches his father's cabin in Chapter Six.

9. What sorts of things to Joe and Violet do together once their relationship is renewed?

10. Describe the relationship between True Belle and Golden Gray.

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