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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. Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1) opens with Jane's observation that people are always expecting what?
(a) To be free.
(b) To be forgiven.
(c) To be led.
(d) To be wanted.

2. What word from the narrative refers to large, heavy shoes?
(a) Dinghies.
(b) Jitneys.
(c) Clodhoppers.
(d) Buckles.

3. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to do what?
(a) Graduate college.
(b) Play in the major leagues.
(c) Attend college.
(d) Run for the U.S. Senate.

4. Who tells Mary Agnes to leave the plantation and hide her whereabouts in "The Samson House"?
(a) Clamp Brown.
(b) Tom Joe.
(c) Jimmy Caya.
(d) Jules Raynard.

5. What invention has lessened the need for laborers on the plantations in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?
(a) Threshing machines.
(b) Trains.
(c) Cars.
(d) Tractors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tee Bob lock himself away in the house in "The Samson House"?

2. Where does Jane express desire to return at the plantation after Tee Bob's suicide in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?

3. When did the African-American Civil Rights Movement begin?

4. Where does Jimmy say he wants to bring the protests in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 2)?

5. What news is related of Mary Agnes in "The Samson House"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Jimmy's planned march "set up" in Book 4: The Quarters?

2. Who concludes the true blame for Tee Bob's death in the end of "The Samson House"? Who is to blame?

3. How is the theme of slavery versus freedom explored in Book 4: The Quarters?

4. How is Jimmy Aaron's early childhood described? Who raises him?

5. What leads Tee Bob to punch his friend Jimmy Caya in "Confession"?

6. What leads Miss Lily to leave the Samson Plantation?

7. What is significant about Jane's settlement at Samson Plantation in "Samson"?

8. How is Tee Bob's body discovered in "The Samson House"?

9. How does the thematic concept of "the One" apply to the novel as a whole?

10. Who enters the Samson house in the beginning of "The Samson House"? What information is revealed?

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