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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What craft did Big Mama do and eventually lost her eyes?
(a) Painting.
(b) Needlework.
(c) Lace-making.
(d) Soap-making.

2. What do Reenie and Lizzie cook over the barbecue fire?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Pork chops.
(c) Partridges.
(d) Beef tips.

3. What do the slave women at the resort gather for Sweet?
(a) Pine cones.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Fabric.
(d) Walnuts.

4. What animal does Mawu use in a voodoo ritual at Sweet's burial?
(a) Duck.
(b) Cat.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Possum.

5. What does Lizzie want to do before they leave the resort?
(a) See Mawu.
(b) Visit a doctor.
(c) Have a picnic.
(d) Swim in the river.

6. How many days does it take for Drayle, Fran and Lizzie to travel to the Tawawa resort?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

7. What does Lizzie learn about what happens to Mawu?
(a) She is caught.
(b) She buys her freedom.
(c) She makes her way to New York.
(d) She gets to Canada.

8. Mawu feeds Sweet pieces of __________________ dipped in water.
(a) Fruit.
(b) Candy.
(c) Bread.
(d) Cornbread.

9. Whose apron catches fire at the barbecue?
(a) A white girl's.
(b) Reenie's.
(c) Lizzie's.
(d) Glory's.

10. Drayle tells Lizzie that the Tawawa House is to be converted into ________________________.
(a) A school for black children.
(b) An insane asylum.
(c) A prison.
(d) A convent.

11. What does Philip use to collect water to drink while chained to the tree?
(a) A hat.
(b) His hands.
(c) A hole he has dug.
(d) A shoe.

12. What does Lizzie notice right away when she sees Glory?
(a) She is missing a finger.
(b) She has a broken arm.
(c) She is limping.
(d) She is pregnant.

13. What is the name of the steamship on which Drayle, Philip and Lizzie travel?
(a) Empire.
(b) Regalia.
(c) Madison.
(d) New Orleans.

14. What does Drayle tell Lizzie when he returns from the fishing trip?
(a) He wants another child.
(b) He is going to free their children.
(c) He has decided to sell Philip.
(d) He is going to sell her.

15. Whose cottage catches fire on the night of the barbecue?
(a) Sir and Reenie's.
(b) Lizzie and Drayle's.
(c) Philip and Virginia's.
(d) Tip and Mawu's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Philip beaten and punished?

2. What does Mawu give to Lizzie before she leaves?

3. What name does Glory plan to give her child?

4. What favor does Lizzie ask of Drayle?

5. In what state does Sweet live with her master?

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