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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 does Avey recall envisioning binding the group members of her girlhood trips?
(a) A rough rope.
(b) A red ribbon.
(c) A silver thread.
(d) A silky scarf.

2. What does Rosalie do for Avey?
(a) Loans her some clothes.
(b) Makes her some tea.
(c) Gives her a sponge bath.
(d) Drives her into town.

3. Which of the following does Avey dream when she is below deck?
(a) She is a slave.
(b) All of these.
(c) She is chained in a dark place.
(d) She is cramped on a ship.

4. With which daughter does Avey recall spending Christmas one year?
(a) Sis.
(b) Marion.
(c) She never spent Christmas away from home.
(d) Annawilda.

5. What does Avey think is the cause of her husband's death?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Carelessness.
(c) Overwork.
(d) High cholesterol.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What holiday does Avey recall spending with one of her daughters?

3. What does the little girl, Avey, feel as the congregation increases its intensity in responding to the preacher's questions?

4. On the beach, Avey thinks and moves like ______________.

5. Which of the following will be celebrated at the island festivities?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the topic the preacher engages in with the congregation causing such a stir that little Avey wants to be sick?

2. Describe Avey's behavior on the beach.

3. How does Avey meet Lebert Joseph?

4. What was occurring during all those years that Avey was living in denial about her true self?

5. What does Lebert regard Avey as and how does he convince her to go to the island with him?

6. What is the significance of the preacher's sermon in Avey's dream for her life now?

7. Avey now longs for her husband "Jay" who "died" when Jerome came to the forefront and made them an affluent family. To what holiday situation does Avey compare this longing?

8. How does Lebert Joseph become Avey's guide, in a sense, to her reclaiming her life?

9. What is Lebert's interest in determining Avey's tribe?

10. What is the sermon that Avey recalls hearing as a little girl?

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