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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medicine does Lebert think Avey desperately needs?
(a) Beg Pardon and Big Drum.
(b) Mea Culpa and Juba.
(c) Beg Pardon and Juba.
(d) Mea Culpa and Big Drum.

2. What type of ceremony does Avey recall filming in Ghana?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A christening.
(c) A ceremony to feed the gods.
(d) A rite of passage.

3. Avey wonders if Jay had really died on the night of their big fight and ____________ had been masquerading in his body all those years since.
(a) Jay's best friend.
(b) Jerome.
(c) The devil.
(d) Jay.

4. What does Avey feel that her family sacrificed?
(a) Their integrity.
(b) Their ancestry.
(c) Their reputations.
(d) The things that make life worth living.

5. On the beach, Avey thinks and moves like ______________.
(a) She is frightened.
(b) A little girl.
(c) She is weighed down.
(d) A gazelle.

6. Where does Avey collapse in exhaustion after thinking about her denial of her people for so many years?
(a) The hotel room bed.
(b) The lounge.
(c) The hotel lobby.
(d) The hotel room balcony.

7. What color is the dress Avey wears for the evening?
(a) Blue.
(b) Pink.
(c) White.
(d) Yellow.

8. What had the preacher hoped to remind the congregation of by telling the story of the risen Christ?
(a) The promise of eternal life.
(b) God's incredible power when He has something to accomplish.
(c) The power of a great history story.
(d) They are so indebted to Jesus for his suffering.

9. What does Avey recall about Jerome's face as he lay in his casket?
(a) She could not look at him in his casket.
(b) She didn't recognize him.
(c) She thought he was still handsome.
(d) She wished he had kept the mustache.

10. Between whom is Avey seated on the boat?
(a) A young husband and wife.
(b) Lebert and his wife.
(c) Two school boys.
(d) Two old women.

11. What is the benefit of Avey's hotel balcony meltdown?
(a) She is finally free of her mother.
(b) She can now forgive her husband.
(c) She can now ask her daughters for forgiveness.
(d) She now has a focus for her anger.

12. What does Lebert tell Avey that the annual island excursion is all about?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Family.
(c) Relaxing.
(d) All of these.

13. In what type of building does Avey take shelter?
(a) A sandwich shop.
(b) An ice cream parlor.
(c) A shave ice shop.
(d) An old rum shop.

14. Avey recalls that Marion always looked at her parents as if _____________________.
(a) They were idiots.
(b) They had two heads.
(c) She were judging them.
(d) They were amazing.

15. What question does the preacher ask after he finishes the story of Christ rising from the dead?
(a) If anyone wants to be baptized today.
(b) Who will see Christ at the end of his life?
(c) If anyone wants to testify.
(d) What stones the parishoners have pulled over their hearts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Avey dreaming of prior to waking?

2. What does the old women do when Avey begins to vomit?

3. To whom does Avey offer up her Beg Pardon?

4. What does Avey dream of while below deck on the ship?

5. Avey recalls that her grandson ___________ on Christmas Day.

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