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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. Who awakens Drayle and Lizzie as they sleep in Lizzie's storeroom?
(a) Cecelia.
(b) Fran.
(c) Addie.
(d) Janelle.

2. What color is Rabbit's hair?
(a) Black.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

3. Who convinces Drayle to let the slaves have Sundays off?
(a) Addie.
(b) Lizzie.
(c) Magnolia.
(d) Fran.

4. What does Drayle ask Lizzie to give him?
(a) A letter.
(b) A child.
(c) Her books.
(d) A buttermilk pie.

5. Which one of the slave women is not happy about the event with the masters?
(a) Lizzie.
(b) Louise.
(c) Sweet.
(d) Reenie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lizzie do everything that Drayle insists on sexually while she is pregnant?

2. What had the woman in #15 once shown to Lizzie?

3. Who is Lizzie's blood sister?

4. Who tells Drayle that Mawu plans to run away?

5. Who whips Mawu with a riding crop in the courtyard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two possible reasons that Fran decides to sell Lizzie?

2. What are some reasons for Baby's sexual assault on Lizzie?

3. Explain what the author means by "Reenie's look"?

4. Why does Lizzie begin to beat her children after they are abandoned by Fran?

5. How does Lizzie's relationship with Drayle negatively affect the other slaves such as Jeremiah who attempt to interact with Drayle just as Lizzie does?

6. Who is Mawu?

7. Why does Mawu want to escape regardless of the cost and what reasons would the other women slaves at the resort have for joining her?

8. What is Drayle's demeanor in approaching Lizzie in a sexual relationship?

9. How would Fran's selling Lizzie hurt Drayle and what point would Fran be making by doing this?

10. How does the dinner party between the white men and their slave women show how the slaves are viewed by freed blacks?

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