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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Felice say Dorcas does for Acton?
2. What is the true reason Dorcas breaks up with Joe?
3. What sort of present does Acton buy Dorcas?
4. Who doesn't want an ambulance to be called after Joe shot Dorcas?
5. How does Golden Gray become drunk?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what Violet sees when she first spots Felice in Chapter Nine.
2. What happens to the cotton plantation thirteen years after Golden Gray confronts his father?
3. Why does Dorcas break up with Joe?
4. In Chapter Seven, what does Henry Lestory find when he gets back to his cabin?
5. Describe Acton's reaction to the shooting of Dorcas in Chapter Eight.
6. In Chapter 10, why do Joe and Violet often go to the roof? What do they do up there together?
7. Who are the only people who do not know that Vera Louise has a son with a black man?
8. Describe what Joe and Violet do together at night in Chapter 10.
9. Describe Vera Louise's father's reaction when he is told Vera Louise is pregnant.
10. Describe the way Felice obtains the ring, as presented by the narrator in Chapter Nine.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the relationship between True Belle and Vera Louise Gray. Do the events they share bring them together or pull them apart? How does each of their relationships with Golden Gray compare to the other?
Essay Topic 2
Briefly summarize the incident when Malvonne finds the mail behind the refrigerator. What does she do in response? Why does she spend time doing these sorts of things, and what irony do you find in the events?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Violet decide she never wants to have children? What impact does this have on her marriage? How does her desire to have children change throughout the book and why?
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