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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. Who apologizes for the way they treated Grant?
(a) Pichot
(b) Tante Lou
(c) Inez
(d) Miss Emma

2. Who warns Grant of the impending annual visit by the superintendent?
(a) Pichot
(b) Guidry
(c) Ambrose
(d) Miss Emma

3. What does Grant not want to spend his life doing?
(a) Being oppressed
(b) Living in this town
(c) Being bored
(d) Teaching children on a plantation

4. Which of the following men did not get into the car to go to the bar?
(a) Bear
(b) Grant
(c) Brother
(d) Jefferson

5. What has Grant had less time to do?
(a) To eat
(b) To be with Vivian
(c) To worship
(d) To sleep

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Grant give for staying in town?

2. How had Grant been taught to avoid this kind of humiliation?

3. The Reverend Ambrose tells Miss Emma that God is just ____________.

4. As the women go to church, what does Grant do?

5. Where does Grant drive Miss Emma and Tante Lou?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Grant so unhappy with his life right now?

2. When the truck carrying the electric chair moves through town, how does the town react?

3. Why is Grant outraged that Miss Emma is suddenly sick?

4. What is Grant doing when the women of the house go to church?

5. Who is the object of Grant's affection and of a secret love affair?

6. What is the result of the belated meeting at Pichot's house?

7. Why does Jefferson say that it does not matter if he eats chicken or dirt?

8. What does Grant do after he snaps at a student?

9. Why was Vivian shunned in Free LaCove?

10. There is a lone present that is beneath the tree in the classroom. What is it?

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