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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another name for the hospital in the story?
(a) No Blacks Allowed
(b) Far From Helpful Hospital
(c) No Name Hospital
(d) No Mercy Hospital

2. Who does Milkman's best friend goad Milkman into visiting?
(a) Ruth
(b) Judy
(c) Pilate
(d) Reba

3. Who picks up a rock and kills the white man where Macon and Pilate decide to sleep?
(a) Ruth
(b) Pilate
(c) Macon
(d) Circe

4. Where does Macon say he will meet later with Milkman?
(a) At the bank
(b) At the barbershop
(c) At a park
(d) In the car

5. Who does Pilate tell Ruth she believes will save Milkman's life one day?
(a) A man
(b) A baby
(c) A woman
(d) A reverend

6. Where is the green bag hanging?
(a) In the cave
(b) On the porch
(c) In the wine cellar
(d) Pilate's house

7. Who is the first woman to deliver a 'colored baby' at Mercy Hospital?
(a) Hagar
(b) Reba
(c) Pilate
(d) Ruth Foster

8. Which of these women does not sing in the group when Milkman visits?
(a) Ruth
(b) Hagar
(c) Reba
(d) Pilate

9. Which of Milkman's legs is shorter than the other?
(a) It's his left arm that is shorter, not his leg.
(b) Left
(c) Neither is shorter
(d) Right

10. Where do Macon and Pilate decide to sleep?
(a) In the attic
(b) In the field
(c) In a cave
(d) Under a rock formation

11. For how long does Milkman want to leave town?
(a) A month
(b) A year
(c) A decade
(d) A week

12. Who scares Macon away from the cave and hinders him from leaving with the item in #82?
(a) Police
(b) Circe
(c) A group of hunters
(d) Pilate

13. Where does Empire State like to hang out?
(a) The railroad tracks
(b) Hagar's
(c) The two Tommys' barbershop
(d) Pilate's

14. What does Milkman mention that causes Macon to become excited?
(a) A city
(b) A car
(c) A green sack
(d) A book

15. Who is the one person for whom Milkman does not buy a Christmas present?
(a) Hagar
(b) Lena
(c) Macon
(d) Ruth

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the person that comes up with the nickname Milkman?

2. Who is shocked about the news that Hagar wants to kill Milkman?

3. Where are Guitar and Milkman at the beginning of this chapter?

4. Who prevented Macon from attempting to miscarry Milkman when he was in the womb?

5. What did Milkman's mother say she was wearing when she was kneeling next to her dead father?

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