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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. Who is Tip?
(a) Mawu's brother.
(b) Lizzie's son.
(c) Mawu's master.
(d) Philip's brother.

2. What color is Rabbit's hair?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

3. How many of her children does Mawu still have with her?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

4. Into whose cabin do Lizzie and her children move after she is attacked?
(a) Joseph's.
(b) Sammy's.
(c) Henry's.
(d) Philip's.

5. Glory and her husband are part of ________________________.
(a) The Ku Klux Klan.
(b) The Underground Railroad.
(c) The Republican party.
(d) The John Birch Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the slave children does Yancy especially admire?

2. What does Drayle do that angers Fran?

3. What does Yancy give Fran when she visits?

4. Yancy visits Fran to celebrate Fran's _______________ birthday.

5. With which slave does Lizzie try to spend time who rejects her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mawu's plan and what could happen to her if it fails?

2. How does the dinner party between the white men and their slave women show how the slaves are viewed by freed blacks?

3. Why does Mawu want to escape regardless of the cost and what reasons would the other women slaves at the resort have for joining her?

4. What is Mawu's life like with her master, Tip, on the plantation?

5. Who is Mawu?

6. What is Drayle's demeanor in approaching Lizzie in a sexual relationship?

7. Why is Fran's relationship with Lizzie's children especially hurtful to Lizzie?

8. Who is Big Mama and what is her relationship with Fran?

9. How does Lizzie's relationship with Drayle negatively affect the other slaves such as Jeremiah who attempt to interact with Drayle just as Lizzie does?

10. Why does Lizzie begin to beat her children after they are abandoned by Fran?

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