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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. In what year is it arranged that Ailey will transfer high schools?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1986.

2. Which of the following is Abdul’s line name?
(a) Serve.
(b) Shotgun.
(c) Shotput.
(d) Sever.

3. In what month does Belle leave for Georgia to attend to Lydia?
(a) June.
(b) April.
(c) May.
(d) March.

4. Which of the following works prompts Belle and Geoffrey to meet?
(a) Le Morte d’Arthur.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) Canterbury Tales.
(d) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

5. How many Black students does Ailey report attend her second high school?
(a) 6.
(b) 27.
(c) 13.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does Ailey call her paternal grandfather?

2. A poster of whom of the following graces Ailey’s dorm room?

3. Studying for which exam prevents Coco from returning home for the holidays?

4. To whom of the following does Belle compare Zulu?

5. From which of the following is the novel’s epigraph taken?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ailey regard her first plane trip?

2. What does the novel imply is the meaning of “siddity”?

3. How is Ailey supposedly rebuked for not accepting punishment alongside Boukie and Baybay?

4. On what is Ailey’s college savings spent, rather than her own collegiate study?

5. Why does Ailey dislike spending summers in the City?

6. Why does Ailey regard the teachers at her second high school as “serious pushovers” (96)?

7. What prompts Ailey to reconcile with Chris Tate instead of with David James?

8. For what reason do the women of Belle’s hometown not blame men for adultery?

9. Why does Root delay his arrival after Pearl dies?

10. What offenses does the novel note prompted the transportation of English criminals to Georgia?

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