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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Loretta feed Maureen sweets every day?
(a) Loretta feels that Maureen is too thin.
(b) Loretta thinks that if Maureen is eating, she is fine.
(c) Loretta wants to make Maureen happy with her favorite foods.
(d) Loretta wants to keep Maureen too weak to run away.

2. How does Maureen feel about her method of earning an income?
(a) She distances herself from it and focuses only on the money she is making.
(b) She doesn't mind it, and sometimes enjoys it.
(c) Her attitude about it is never expressed.
(d) She hates every moment of it, and hates her parents for forcing her to such lengths.

3. What happens to Jules at school?
(a) He is paddled by a teacher.
(b) He is beaten up for trying to steal someone's lunch.
(c) He is suspended for starting a fight.
(d) He falls in love with a nun.

4. To whom does Loretta go for help while Howard is gone?
(a) Rita.
(b) Brock.
(c) Her father.
(d) Bernie.

5. What sort of relationship does Betty have with her brother and sister?
(a) All three of them are very close.
(b) Betty is close to Jules, but not to Maureen.
(c) Betty isn't close to either of her siblings.
(d) Betty is close to Maureen, but not to Jules.

6. How did Bernard make most of his money?
(a) His involvement in the Detroit mob.
(b) An inheritance.
(c) The business he owned.
(d) An item he invented.

7. What is Loretta's situation at the beginning of the second book?
(a) She is not pregnant and still working.
(b) She is not pregnant, but unemployed.
(c) She is pregnant and unemployed.
(d) She is pregnant, but still working.

8. Who is Pat Furlong?
(a) Howard's former employer.
(b) A reverend at the local church.
(c) A police officer investigating Howard's death.
(d) Loretta's new husband.

9. Where does Mrs. Wendall live after Howard's death?
(a) She goes to a funeral home.
(b) She goes to live with a relative in the country.
(c) She continues to live with Loretta and her new husband.
(d) She goes to live with one of her other children.

10. Where is Mrs. Wendall living?
(a) With Loretta and Howard.
(b) In a shelter.
(c) With another relative.
(d) In a nursing home.

11. Why does Bernard give Jules three hundred dollars?
(a) For a haircut, a suit, and groceries for his mother.
(b) For a new car.
(c) So Jules can pay off a debt.
(d) So Jules can go to Texas.

12. Why does Faye take Jules home when she meets him?
(a) She wants to rob him.
(b) She is attracted to him.
(c) He is lightheaded from lack of food and sleep.
(d) He is shivering in the rain.

13. What does Jules dream of when looking at maps and books?
(a) Getting away from Detroit one day.
(b) Becoming a pirate.
(c) Joining the circus.
(d) Staying in Detroit to help his mother.

14. Where are Jules and Nadine at the end of Chapter 6 of the second book?
(a) Nadine and Jules are both back in Michigan.
(b) Nadine is in Texas; Jules is making his way back to Detroit.
(c) Jules is in Texas; Nadine is making her way back to Detroit.
(d) Nadine and Jules are in Texas together.

15. How does Maureen feel about her parents?
(a) She admires them for their hard work.
(b) She hates them for keeping the family mired in poverty.
(c) She loves them, and pities them.
(d) She loves them, and is happy at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Loretta's family feel about Mrs. Wendall's placement in a nursing home?

2. Why is Mrs. Wendall placed in a nursing home?

3. What relationship exists between Nadine and Bernard?

4. Why does Jules steal a car?

5. Who is Rita?

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