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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 175-230.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months older than Sally was Josephine?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 0.
(d) 3.

2. Whose workers noisily cut down a tree in 1924, causing "everybody within a quarter mile" to hear the "crack" (209)?
(a) Aristide.
(b) Louis's.
(c) Josephine's.
(d) Paul.

3. In what way was Isaiah related to Josephine before his death?
(a) Husband.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Father.
(d) Brother.

4. Josephine celebrates the fact that she can only detect a "slight" bit of what "ever-present" (210) emotion within Major's words to Vern?
(a) Anger.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Shame.
(d) Glee.

5. Ava has never lived more than a how-many-minute drive from her mother Gladys's house?
(a) 40.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Josephine's husband?

2. Sally says to Josephine, "I'd never to do anything to hurt you, Josephine. You're like a" what "to me" (149)?

3. When Gladys comes to visit Ava and King for the first time at Grandma Martha's, what object does Ava put in the living room?

4. Josephine has "stopped expecting" (175) Eliza and Major by how many weeks after their argument?

5. Which character does Gladys claim speaks to her from the time she is admitted to the hospital?

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