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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Karintha do as a child?
(a) Danced with older boys.
(b) Loved to read.
(c) Gossiped about her peers.
(d) Played baseball.

2. What did the townspeople secretly bring Becky?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) Tools.
(d) Their problems.

3. How did the townspeople know that Becky was alive?
(a) They saw her through the windows.
(b) She came to the market.
(c) There was smoke coming out of the chimney.
(d) Her sons told the townspeople.

4. How have the woman's wrinkles described in "Face" been made?
(a) Pain.
(b) Thought.
(c) Fright.
(d) Stress.

5. To what does the speaker compare another birth in the family line in "Song of the Son"?
(a) A tree leaf.
(b) A royal crown.
(c) A bird's nest.
(d) A plum seed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?

2. How does the speaker feel about Cloine?

3. To whose singing does the author repeatedly compare Fern's face?

4. In "Conversion", what is the main fault of the African god?

5. After her first baby was born, how did the townspeople react towards Becky?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Barlo's reaction to Esther when she is 29 and comes for him?

2. How does Rhobert feel about his personal struggles affecting his family?

3. How did the older generation view the blooming of the November Cotton Flower?

4. How does Louisa feel about Tom Burwell and Bob Stone?

5. What does the speaker ultimately decide to do about his hunger in "Harvest Song"?

6. What are the "reapers" in the poem of the same name?

7. How does Dorris feel about the theater manager's brother, John?

8. What is the purpose of the "Song of the Son"?

9. What does the fieldmouse represent in the poem, "Reapers"?

10. Discuss the visual and social contrasts that the author sets up between Black Seventh Street and the rest of white Washington.

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