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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. How does driving his car make Boots feel?
(a) Like a superstar.
(b) Like a good mechanic.
(c) Like he can conquer the world.
(d) Like a hypocrite.
2. How do the elderly women in the neighborhood feel about The Junto?
(a) They love it.
(b) They hate it.
(c) They're indifferent to it.
(d) They think it is an important part of the community.
3. Which choice best illustrates the setting of the book?
(a) New York City on a cold and windy day in November of 1944.
(b) New York City on a stormy night in November of 1944.
(c) Brooklyn on a cold and windy day in November of 1944.
(d) New York City on a hot and humid day in June of 1944.
4. Why does Min think Jones kicked her in her bottom?
(a) Jones thinks Min is stupid and can't get anything right.
(b) Jones is angry about his job.
(c) Jones is an evil man.
(d) Jones doesn't like the way Min looks as compared to Lutie.
5. How does Min feel after visiting the root doctor?
(a) She has a new determination.
(b) She is hopeful that Jones will change.
(c) She is sad to be home again.
(d) She realizes the root doctor was a fool and is ashamed to have believed in him.
Short Answer Questions
1. From whose point of view is Chapter 5 written?
2. What does Boots invite Lutie to do?
3. How does Lutie feel about Mrs. Chandler?
4. How does Jones feel about the possibility of Min leaving him?
5. What do Mrs. Chandler's mother and her white friends seem to believe about black women?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 2, Lutie returns from Mrs. Chandler's and arrives in Harlem relieved to be away from white people. How does Lutie believe that white women and men look at her?
2. How does Min's relationship with Jones reflect the relationships in her past?
3. After leaving Jim, Lutie never reaches out to him again. How does this single fact reflect Lutie's strength?
4. Considering Lutie's failed marriage and Jim's inability to provide for his family, what sort of future does Boots offers Lutie?
5. Chapter 2 introduces Mrs. Pizzini as the character who provides a letter of reference for Lutie. Mrs. Pizzini shares some advice with Lutie about the effects of working while raising a family: "It's best that the man do the work when the babies are young. And when the man is young. Not good for the woman to work when she's young. Not good for the man." Why does Lutie originally brush Mrs. Pizzini off and then later recall the advice over and over again?
6. How does the stolen purse incident reflect the theme of the book?
7. Chapter 1 opens with the description of a cold and windy day in New York City. Why might the author have chosen to describe the wind through personification?
8. Describe what Junto's means to the different people in the neighborhood.
9. In Lutie's dream, she is the one being asked to "unloose" the neighborhood people. Why has Lutie has been given this charge in the dream?
10. Jones becomes enraged when he looks at Bub and imagines that the boy resembles his father. Why do you think this is?
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