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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. What has Drayle not told Fran?
(a) He is sending Nate to school in Ohio.
(b) Lizzie is pregnant again.
(c) He wants to divorce her.
(d) He is thinking of selling Rabbit.

2. What does Lizzie give Philip before he leaves with the barber?
(a) The address of the Tennessee plantation.
(b) A poem.
(c) A blueberry pie.
(d) A lock of her hair.

3. How does Fran react when Lizzie tells her that she has drunk a special tea to abort a baby?
(a) She cries.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She threatens to slap Lizzie.
(d) She doesn't say anything.

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

5. How is Sweet buried?
(a) Her body is placed directly in the ground.
(b) Her body is placed in the river.
(c) Her body is cremated.
(d) Her body is placed in a pine casket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the girl Philip has been seeing?

2. What does a black child place on the barbecue fire?

3. What is the name of the town which is the destination of the summer trips?

4. Where does Reenie now work as a maid?

5. What craft did Big Mama do and eventually lost her eyes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Sweet's master behave so cavalierly at her death?

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

4. Where has Reenie escaped to and what keeps Lizzie from running away immediately?

5. How does the absence of Sweet, Reenie and Mawu alter Lizzie's feelings about Drayle?

6. How does Drayle show that, while favorites of his, Lizzie and Philip are not above being punished and reminded of their slave status in life?

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

8. What frightens Lizzie about the prospect that Drayle could free Philip?

9. Why does religion play such a big part in the lives and deaths of the slaves?

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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