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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ending: Atonement: Later in the Same Life, Settling Accounts, and Release.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of some of the poetry Lynne writes?
(a) The forces of nature.
(b) Old lovers.
(c) Gentleness in the Revolution.
(d) Saving the environment.

2. What did the woman in #24 bury beneath the big magnolia tree?
(a) Placenta.
(b) Gold coins.
(c) Rare documents.
(d) Her severed tongue.

3. Why did the man quit his job?
(a) He got no sick pay.
(b) He got no holiday pay.
(c) They covered up all the windows in the plant.
(d) He got injured too many times.

4. What is Miss Margaret Treasure doing when Meridian and Truman encounter her?
(a) Snipping beans.
(b) Burning a cornfield.
(c) Darning socks.
(d) Planting tomatoes.

5. What does the woman hope?
(a) To see a black U.S. President.
(b) To have a good Christmas.
(c) To see her grandkids raised.
(d) To be buried on Mother's Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Truman feel he has done by marrying Lynne?

2. Who does Lynne say are the only people who ever loved her?

3. What does Meridian take to a town meeting?

4. Meridian's mother says that only _____________ wouldn't want her own baby.

5. Meridian's mother feels that her children took away her _______________.

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