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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 was Rawlings's grandfather's outhouse lined with photographs of?
(a) Cars.
(b) Queens.
(c) Baseball players.
(d) Dogs.

2. How did Rawlings feel about her black neighbors in Cross Creek?
(a) She feared them.
(b) She was apathetic to them.
(c) She cared for them.
(d) She avoided them.

3. In what unlikely place on her property did Rawlings find someone living?
(a) In her attick.
(b) Under her porch.
(c) Under her oak tree.
(d) In her outhouse.

4. Which of Moe's relatives was once superintendent of Rawlings's orange groves?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His father.
(c) His great grandfather.
(d) His great-great grandfather.

5. What did Martha's young boy throw on Rawlings's horse frightening it?
(a) A bundle of hay.
(b) A saddle.
(c) A blanket.
(d) Cold water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal did Mr. Higgenbottom sell for a living?

2. What did Rawlings claim was the only thing holding Martha back from becoming an aristocrat?

3. What did Martha's husband do for a living during the time she worked with Rawlings?

4. What piece of furniture did Moe bring to Rawlings when he came to visit with her?

5. Why did Geechee drink alcohol?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Townsends entertain Rawlings at their pound party?

2. What connection did Rawlings see between African-American children and imagination through her experiences with Patsy?

3. Why did Mr. Swilley believe that Rawlings was in love with him, and why did Rawlings let him go from her service?

4. Who were the Townsends, and what was Rawlings's relationship to them?

5. How did Rawlings help Snow Slater after he was abandoned by his family?

6. How did Rawlings become involved in the Townsend children's education?

7. What types of physical maladies were the Slaters suffering from, and why weren't there maladies being treated?

8. How did Mr. Marsh Turner die?

9. How did Rawlings describe the woman playing piano that she met while taking census information with Zelda?

10. What type of relationship did Rawlings have with Leroy?

(see the answer keys)

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