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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. What does Florens write on at the farm?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Receipts.
(c) A board.
(d) Corn husks.

2. What is Sorrow's father's job?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Trader.
(c) Captain.
(d) Slave.

3. What is missing when Florens wakes up in the blacksmith's house?
(a) Her satchel.
(b) Her letter.
(c) Her bonnet.
(d) Her boots.

4. How does the blacksmith feel about the news Florens brings him?
(a) He is scared.
(b) He is upset.
(c) He is confused.
(d) He is happy.

5. How does Sorrow feel about the blacksmith after she has her baby?
(a) She is cautious around him.
(b) She is devoted to him.
(c) She is embarrassed around him.
(d) She is angry with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rebekka try to get rid of Sorrow?

2. Why is it strange for Florens to talk to someone as she walks home?

3. What does Rebekka spend most of her time doing when Florens returns?

4. Why doesn't Minha Mae give her son away?

5. What did Minha Mae always want to make Florens understand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the farm after Jacob dies?/

2. How did Minha Mae get pregnant with Florens?

3. What does Mina Mae say about her ship voyage?

4. How does Rebekka change in her treatment of Willard and Scully after Jacob dies?

5. What does Florens choose to write about?

6. Why does Florens choose to write about something?

7. What changes the relationship between Florens and the black smith?

8. Why did Minha Mae not like when Florens wore shoes?

9. What protected Sorrow when her father died?

10. How is Florens contacted by her mother, and how does she feel about this?

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