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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As an a adult, how does Karintha feel about men?
(a) She needs them.
(b) She has contempt for them.
(c) She fears them.
(d) She loves them.

2. How does the speaker feel about Cloine?
(a) He is entranced by her.
(b) He finds her ugly.
(c) He does not care about her.
(d) He hates her.

3. How have the woman's wrinkles described in "Face" been made?
(a) Thought.
(b) Stress.
(c) Pain.
(d) Fright.

4. What are reapers' relationships to scythes?
(a) They use them as tools.
(b) They attach to them.
(c) They sharpen them.
(d) They cut with them.

5. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?
(a) They want to marry her.
(b) They want to possess her.
(c) They want to run her out of town.
(d) They want to protect her.

6. How is Karintha's skin described?
(a) The color of newly plowed earth.
(b) Dusk on the eastern horizon.
(c) Sweet as nectar.
(d) A river of chocolate.

7. What does Cloine do while the speaker observes her?
(a) Sleeps.
(b) Sits on her porch.
(c) Eats.
(d) Works the field.

8. What did Karintha do as a child?
(a) Played baseball.
(b) Loved to read.
(c) Gossiped about her peers.
(d) Danced with older boys.

9. Who is observing the forest in "Nullo"?
(a) The townspeople.
(b) Rhobert.
(c) Only the speaker.
(d) Fern.

10. At twenty-two, how does Esther decide that she feels about Barlo?
(a) She loves him.
(b) She is dependent upon him.
(c) She hates him.
(d) She is disgusted by him.

11. At what age does Karintha become sexually active?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 14.
(d) 13.

12. How is the swinging of the scythes described in "Reapers"?
(a) Rhythmic.
(b) Thunderous.
(c) Silent.
(d) Violent.

13. For emphasis of the field workers' plight, what does Toomer use?
(a) The cotton picker's voice.
(b) The preacher's voice.
(c) God's voice.
(d) The plantation manager's voice.

14. After finding no wounds in Carma, what does Bane do?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Cries.
(c) Knifes the men helping him.
(d) Kisses Carma.

15. The poem "Evening Song" is an ode to whom?
(a) Karintha.
(b) Fern.
(c) Cloine.
(d) Becky.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the townspeople know that Becky was alive?

2. According to the cotton song, how does God feel about picking cotton?

3. How does the woman personified with the face seem to be?

4. How are the horses pulling the mower in "Reapers" described?

5. Which alcohol does the African god drink in "Conversion"?

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