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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 175-230.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the reader first hears Josephine's voice, she is preparing for the wedding of which character?
(a) Her only son.
(b) Her second son.
(c) Her nephew.
(d) Her only daughter.

2. From whom does Ava receive a call telling her that her mother Gladys is in the hospital?
(a) Byron.
(b) Grandma Martha.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Gladys's neighbor.

3. Josephine thinks to herself in 1924, "Isaiah would be so proud of all that had come from those first" how many "acres" (176)?
(a) 18.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

4. During the wedding, Josephine has to look away when she gets choked up thinking about three qualities Major shares with his late father. What is NOT one of these qualities?
(a) Coal-black eyes.
(b) Burnt orange skin.
(c) Piercing green eyes.
(d) Curly red hair.

5. On what side of town does Ava's somewhat estranged mother live?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) West.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ava wakes up in the middle of the night and finds a pigeon outside her window, what sound does she hear first?

2. The narrator reveals that Josephine began her life as a what?

3. Link tells Josephine that white people are incapable of being friends with black people, since "they think friend mean" (143) what?

4. Ava has a vision of a what object hanging from an oak tree at Grandma Martha's house?

5. Who is the character named Byron?

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