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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. How many of Sweet's children have died in a year?.
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

2. Drayle makes arrangements for the slaves to go to _______________ to do something nice for Sweet.
(a) Dayton.
(b) Cincinnati.
(c) Columbus.
(d) Xenia.

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

4. Where does Reenie now work as a maid?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Cincinnati.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sweet's body found?

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

3. What does Lizzie consider regarding Rabbit?

4. What do some of the white women do while Philip is chained to a tree?

5. At the resort, Lizzie has dreams about what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Reenie's behavior show that her life has changed dramatically for the worse in the time since she saw the other women last Summer?

2. Why is Sweet's death so bittersweet for the women?

3. What spiritual connection does Mawu feel for Lizzie?

4. What is the most obvious reason that Lizzie does not run away from Drayle at the end of the story?

5. How does Mawu show that she is intent on running away very soon?

6. What is the ultimate decision Lizzie makes regarding her pregnancy and her ultimate goal?

7. Why is Drayle's decision to send Nate to school in Ohio a bittersweet one for Lizzie?

8. Why has Mawu waited a year in the cabin in the woods after running away from her master?

9. What reasons do the other slaveholders give to Drayle for why he should free Philip?

10. Describe how the old man who was a freed slave traveling on the train to Ohio signifies the importance of freedom regardless of age?

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