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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a woman doing in the town square of Chicokema?
(a) Performing in mime.
(b) Staring down the town's tank.
(c) Dancing in the fountain.
(d) Sunbathing nude.

2. What job does Meridian get?
(a) Cook.
(b) Waitress.
(c) Typist.
(d) Receptionist.

3. How does Meridian feel after her baby is born?
(a) She has never been happier.
(b) She wants another baby right away.
(c) She hates the baby.
(d) She wonders if she can be a good mother.

4. Who is Tommy Odds?
(a) A televangelist.
(b) A mechanic.
(c) A professor.
(d) A Civil Rights worker.

5. What does Truman feel he has done by marrying Lynne?
(a) Settled.
(b) Married beneath his class.
(c) Rushed into something.
(d) Betrayed his race.

6. Meridian's father's walls are filled with what?
(a) Oil paintings.
(b) Photos and artifacts.
(c) Posters.
(d) Newspaper pages.

7. In what state is the town of Chicokema?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Florida.
(d) Georgia.

8. Who does Meridian tell about her marriage and child when she is at Saxon?
(a) Anne-Marion.
(b) Janelle.
(c) No one.
(d) Truman.

9. Meridian and Anne-Marion get involved in what type of procession?
(a) The Wild Child's funeral.
(b) An anti-war march.
(c) A Civil Rights march.
(d) A homecoming parade.

10. What happens to Meridian's baby?
(a) Her mother takes him.
(b) She gives him away.
(c) He is in foster care.
(d) He dies.

11. Where do Meridian and Anne-Marion live at the university?
(a) A dorm.
(b) A sorority house.
(c) The honors house.
(d) An apartment.

12. What has Meridian's mother never done?
(a) Stayed in a hotel.
(b) Voted.
(c) Traveled outside the state.
(d) Had a cocktail.

13. What did Anne-Marion do to make the Dean of Women so angry?
(a) She had a boy in her dorm room.
(b) She smoked in the classroom.
(c) She led a strike of cafeteria workers.
(d) She cut off her hair.

14. Meridian's mother says that only _____________ wouldn't want her own baby.
(a) A slut.
(b) A psychotic.
(c) A narcissist.
(d) A monster.

15. What new name does Meridian give her baby?
(a) Rundi.
(b) Isaiah.
(c) Truman.
(d) Samuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Meridian's feelings of guilt are only abated by ________________.

2. Meridian's mother's demeanor can be characterized as ____________.

3. What is the Sacred Serpent?

4. Where does Meridian visit her father in "Indians and Ecstasy?"

5. What task does Meridian do at the Civil Rights office?

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