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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Meridian: Indians and Ecstasy, English Walnuts, and The Happy Mother.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Sacred Serpent?
(a) A bar.
(b) An Indian burial mound.
(c) A new dance.
(d) A tribal dance.

2. What kind of business did George Daxter own?
(a) Men's clothing store.
(b) Appliance store.
(c) Ice cream shop.
(d) Funeral home.

3. What has a traveling circus brought to town?
(a) The world's fattest woman.
(b) A mummy.
(c) The world's tallest man.
(d) A two-headed duck.

4. How does Meridian think that Truman grieves?
(a) He writes.
(b) He does drugs.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He gets drunk.

5. What is stuck on the walls of Meridian's house?
(a) Take-out menus.
(b) Old gum.
(c) Letters and poems.
(d) Posters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Meridian's father's walls are filled with what?

2. Who is the father of Meridian's child?

3. To whom does Meridian's father give the deed for his small farm?

4. How does Meridian feel after her baby is born?

5. What is a woman doing in the town square of Chicokema?

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