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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mattie realize when she wakes up?
(a) It is too early to get up
(b) She is sleeping much more lately
(c) She is late for church
(d) People are setting up for a block party

2. What is Kiswana's birth name?
(a) Melanie
(b) Melody
(c) Marianne
(d) Mimi

3. What do the women need as help in building healthy foundations for their children?
(a) A rent-controlled apartment
(b) The strength of men
(c) A good job
(d) A trust fund

4. What does Ciel think about her baby?
(a) She worries about her future
(b) She thinks she looks like Eugene
(c) She is the only thing she has ever loved without pain
(d) She is the most beautiful thing she has ever seen

5. What do unrealized dreams become for women?
(a) Depression
(b) Bad karma
(c) Anger
(d) Memories

6. What does Mattie tell Etta that Etta needs?
(a) A husband
(b) A good job
(c) A bigger house
(d) A facelift

7. When did Coral Lee have her first child?
(a) Just after high school graduation
(b) As an eighth grader
(c) As a sophomore in high school
(d) As a senior in high school

8. Who does Etta set her sights on at the event?
(a) A policeman
(b) A dance instructor
(c) A visiting minister
(d) A film star

9. Who helps to calm Lorraine down after the Brewster Place tenants' meeting?
(a) Ben
(b) Mattie
(c) Cora Lee
(d) Theresa

10. What does Kiswana realize about her mother's physical appearance?
(a) She has colored her hair
(b) She has pierced ears
(c) She has her toenails polished
(d) She has lost weight

11. What physical characteristic does Ben's daughter have?
(a) A cleft palate
(b) A hair lip
(c) A cauliflower ear
(d) A twisted foot

12. Who will serve as Cora Lee's mentor now?
(a) Etta
(b) Kiswana
(c) Ben
(d) Mattie

13. What social event occurs at Brewster Place shortly after Ben's death?
(a) A spaghetti dinner
(b) An ice cream social
(c) A block party
(d) A fish fry

14. Mattie says that she has loved some women deeper than she has loved ________________.
(a) her religion
(b) her parents
(c) her child
(d) any man

15. What does Cora Lee believe to be the reason for her problems with caseworkers and other people?
(a) Her boyfriends always leaving
(b) Her parents abandoning her
(c) Her neighbors being nosy
(d) Her children not behaving

Short Answer Questions

1. From what city does Ciel return to Brewster Place?

2. What happens to Lorraine the night she walks home from the party?

3. What will happen to the women of Brewster Place?

4. What purpose does the Shakespeare play have for Cora Lee?

5. Which of the following is not a reaction when a dream dies?

(see the answer keys)

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