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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the superintendent lecture the children on the importance of?
(a) Hard work
(b) Education
(c) Books
(d) Nutrition

2. Why does Grant decide to walk along the road?
(a) He is meeting with Vivian
(b) He snapped at a student
(c) He is tired
(d) He wants to run away

3. Where did Vivian attend school?
(a) Community college
(b) Cornell
(c) Xavier University
(d) Brown

4. What is Grant going to tell Miss Emma that Jefferson ate and enjoyed?
(a) The bread
(b) The corn
(c) The chicken
(d) The pralines

5. Who is the young African American man at the center of the trial?
(a) Jefferson
(b) Brother
(c) Grope
(d) Bear

6. Who apologizes for the way they treated Grant?
(a) Tante Lou
(b) Miss Emma
(c) Inez
(d) Pichot

7. What is delivered to the school?
(a) The first load of firewood
(b) Books
(c) Paper
(d) The first stock of food

8. Grant is worried that the guards will do what when he goes to the jail on his own?
(a) Beat him
(b) Ask him to strip or to look in his mouth
(c) Lock him up
(d) Ignore him

9. Where is Vivian from originally?
(a) Free LaCove
(b) Miami
(c) Austin
(d) Myrtle Beach

10. What does Miss Emma want Pichot to do?
(a) Arrange for a visit between Grant and Jefferson
(b) Nothing
(c) Try to appeal the verdict
(d) Help Jefferson escape

11. What does Grant notice through the barred window?
(a) Blue sky and yelllow leaves
(b) Dark clouds
(c) Spring buds
(d) Darkness

12. As the women go to church, what does Grant do?
(a) Grades papers
(b) Goes for a walk
(c) Prays
(d) Eats breakfast

13. Who does NOT enter the kitchen at 6:45 PM?
(a) Louis Rougon
(b) Sam Guidry
(c) Henri Pichot
(d) Reverend Ambrose

14. Grant tells a student to leave the classroom. Why?
(a) Because she made a smart remark
(b) Because she is unable to control her emotions
(c) Because he was mean to another student
(d) Because he looks like Jefferson

15. When Jefferson does not eat, what does Grant pick up and eat?
(a) The candy
(b) Corn
(c) Chicken
(d) Vegetables

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reminds Grant that the visits will end at the first sign of trouble?

2. What is searched before Miss Emma and Grant go to Jefferson's cell?

3. Who is in charge of scheduling the execution?

4. Where do the person in #13 and Grant meet up once she had arranged for a babysitter?

5. What does this person give to Grant?

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