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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mattie go to visit a week later?
(a) Butch's cousin, Emma
(b) Her friend, Etta
(c) The church deacon
(d) Her grandmother

2. What does the Opening Poem tell the reader the book will be about?
(a) Dreams unrealized
(b) Marriage and divorce
(c) World peace
(d) Guilty pleasures

3. What does Butch invite Mattie to do?
(a) Pick herbs and sugar cane
(b) Play baseball
(c) Go to the movies
(d) Go for a drive

4. The people of Brewster Place could be called a _________________.
(a) community
(b) micro-society
(c) accident waiting to happen
(d) disaster

5. Why is Mattie angry at Miss Eva?
(a) For reading her mail
(b) For disciplining Basil
(c) For making her feel ashamed of loving her son so much
(d) For charging her too much rent

6. What does Mattie do when Miss Eva dies?
(a) Buys Miss Eva's house
(b) Moves back home
(c) Has Miss Eva cremated
(d) Leaves for Harlem

7. What does Mattie's father consider her to be?
(a) A mistake
(b) A burden
(c) His pride and joy
(d) A bundle of contradictions

8. Who replaced the Mediterraneans when they moved out of Brewster Place?
(a) "Afric" children
(b) Asian families
(c) Hispanic families
(d) Irish families

9. How is the information about the characters to be presented?
(a) In poems
(b) In long verse
(c) In individual stories
(d) In bullet points

10. Who does Mattie's father believe is the father of Mattie's unborn child?
(a) Marlon
(b) Fred
(c) Butch
(d) Jamie

11. What does the attorney advise Mattie regarding Basil's bail?
(a) Don't pay it
(b) Negotiate the amount
(c) Pay it immediately
(d) Make Basil pay it

12. What season is it when Mattie Michael moves into Brewster Place?
(a) Summer
(b) Spring
(c) Winter
(d) Fall

13. The thought of _________________ convinces Mattie to go with Butch.
(a) fresh herbs for dinner
(b) kissing Butch
(c) fresh cane molasses
(d) defying her mother

14. Who does Mattie's father blame for her pregnancy?
(a) Butch
(b) Himself
(c) The deacon
(d) Mattie

15. What serious illness did Mattie have when she was little?
(a) Swine Flu
(b) Malaria
(c) Scarlet Fever
(d) Diabetes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the attorney tell Mattie?

2. What is one of the literary elements that the author uses throughout the book?

3. Where does Basil live at the end of the chapter?

4. What does Mattie's father do to her to coerce her to name the baby's father?

5. "Or does it _____________?"

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