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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Loretta go with her children while Howard is gone?
(a) Nowhere; she stays with Mrs. Wendall.
(b) Back to Detroit.
(c) To Texas, to start a new life.
(d) Overseas to be with Howard.

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

4. Why is the person Loretta goes to unable to help her?
(a) Because her husband doesn't welcome strangers.
(b) Because they have no place to live themselves.
(c) Because they are already living in someone else's home.
(d) Because they are in the hospital.

5. What does Loretta do after Mrs. Wendall is gone?
(a) Quits her job to care for her children.
(b) Rents Mrs. Wendall's room to a boarder.
(c) Moves the family into a smaller apartment.
(d) Gets a second job, to pay for the nursing home care.

6. What happens to Bernie?
(a) He is hit by a car and killed.
(b) His sister is kidnapped.
(c) He is shot and killed.
(d) He contracts a terminal illness.

7. How long is Pat in jail?
(a) Eighteen months.
(b) Six months.
(c) A year.
(d) Four months.

8. What does Jules want to do with his own children?
(a) Live somewhere far away from Detroit.
(b) Home-school them.
(c) Give them opportunities that he never had.
(d) Ensure that they remember him when he is gone.

9. Why is Bernard killed?
(a) His involvement in underworld crime.
(b) A mugging gone wrong.
(c) The jealous rage of Faye's husband.
(d) The jealousy of a business rival.

10. What does Jules focus on after his father's death?
(a) Trying to set his mother up with a good man.
(b) Making money to escape his life of poverty.
(c) Getting good grades, to be able to attend college.
(d) Becoming the man of the family.

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

12. Why is Mrs. Wendall placed in a nursing home?
(a) The family can't afford to feed her.
(b) Her deteriorating health.
(c) Mrs. Wendall no longer wants to live with Loretta and her children.
(d) The family is forced to move into a smaller home.

13. What type of child is Betty?
(a) A child of the streets at an early age.
(b) Helpful and cooperative around the house.
(c) Cheerful and loving.
(d) Independent and responsible.

14. What type of school do Loretta's children attend?
(a) Loretta home-schools them.
(b) An inner-city public school.
(c) A Catholic school.
(d) A Hebrew school.

15. Why does Maureen need money immediately?
(a) To get out of her parents' house.
(b) To make a deposit for her college application.
(c) To buy a gun.
(d) To pay Pat's bookie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jules?

2. What does Nadine know about why Bernard was killed?

3. How does Mrs. Wendall react to the barn fire?

4. What does Jules struggle with after Howard's funeral?

5. How does Loretta feel about Howard's absence?

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