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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. About what does Avey reflect on in Chapter 5?
(a) Her grandchildren.
(b) The boy she had loved in school.
(c) The high price her family paid for affluence.
(d) Her husband's infidelity.

2. What is the part of the island excursion where people ask forgiveness from the Old Parents?
(a) Perpetual Pleading.
(b) Mea Culpa.
(c) Beg Pardon.
(d) Please the Heavens.

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) Jay.
(d) The devil.

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

5. What do the old women do as they help Avey move below deck?
(a) Call for help.
(b) Hold her up as best they can.
(c) Cover her with their shawls.
(d) Put a blanket over her head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did NOT integrate for Avey during the festivities?

2. What is the name of the ship that would take Avey, as a girl, on the trips to Bear Mountain with her family and friends?

3. Where does Avery recall going as a girl on family trips?

4. What is Avey dreaming of prior to waking?

5. Which of the following does Lebert tell Avey to convince her to go to the island with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Avey's behavior on the beach.

2. What is Juba and what might it mean for Avey?

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

4. Describe the awakening Avey, who is subconsciously preparing to reclaim her life, experiences.

5. Describe Avey's experience at the Beg Pardon.

6. How does the present day Avey mirror what the little girl Avey was experiencing in the dream?

7. Describe how Avey's massage becomes almost like a sacred ritual in renewing her in body and spirit.

8. How does Avey compare this boat trip, and the old women sitting beside her, to her childhood days in church?

9. 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?

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

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