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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 Martha's husband do for a living during the time she worked with Rawlings?
(a) Her husband was unemployed.
(b) Her husband was a mechanic.
(c) Her husband was a farmer.
(d) Her husband was a butler.

2. What type of critters did Rodney keep as pets?
(a) Injured birds.
(b) Fish.
(c) Wild animals.
(d) Insects.

3. What did Rawlings bribe the children to do by offering to sew them new clothes?
(a) Go to church.
(b) Play nicely with each other.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Mow her lawn.

4. How much did Rawlings pay for Georgia, her first servant girl?
(a) $20.00.
(b) $10.00.
(c) $15.00.
(d) $5.00.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Slater's daughter, Alvah, save up to purchase for Rawlings at Christmas time?

2. What was the name of the tenant who lived in Rawlings's tenant home?

3. What item did Rawlings forget to take to her beach house and her kind neighbors brought for her in their truck?

4. What work did Martha regularly do for Rawlings in her home?

5. Which of the following topics was Widow Slater obsessed with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What experience with outhouses did Rawlings have when she was growing up?

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

5. How much land did Rawlings inherit when she moved to Cross Creek, and what did she use her land for?

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

7. What parts of Cross Creek added to its beauty, as Rawlings recollected it in the opening chapter of the memoir?

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

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

10. How did Rawlings acquire the antique bed in her house?

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