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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 issue does Irene have with Clare?
(a) She thinks Clare wants to avoid her.
(b) She thinks Clare has deserted her race.
(c) She thinks Clare wants to be white.
(d) She thinks Clare is dishonest.

2. Who talked Brian out of moving to Brazil?
(a) Irene.
(b) Junior.
(c) Clare.
(d) John.

3. What does Brian think is appropriate for Junior to learn?
(a) What is taught at his school.
(b) A foreign language.
(c) How to take up for himself.
(d) What the other kids are telling him.

4. What do Irene and Brian call their son?
(a) Junior.
(b) Brian II.
(c) Little Brian.
(d) Sonny.

5. What does John Bellew call Clare?
(a) Blacky.
(b) Nig.
(c) Honey.
(d) Darky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Irene try to ignore?

2. What do Brian and Irene discuss as they eat breakfast?

3. What does Irene ask Brian to do after breakfast?

4. How does Irene feel about Clare?

5. What does Irene think of the couple who sits near her at the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Irene and Gertrude feel after they leave the meeting with Clare and John?

2. What is some background information about the author?

3. Where does Irene travel to the day after her meeting with Clare? How does Irene first respond to Clare's note?

4. Whom else did Clare invite along when she meets Irene? What do Clare and the other guest have in common?

5. What are Irene Redfield's recollections as she reads the letter from Clare Kendry?

6. What name does John Bellew, Clare's husband, call his wife? Why?

7. What made it easy for Clare to pass as white?

8. What does Clare dislike about being able to pass for white?

9. What do Clare and Gertrude fear about each of their pregnancies?

10. What does Clare tell Irene in the note she sent to Irene?

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