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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Peter feel when he leaves M.C's place?
(a) He detests Alabama.
(b) He detests M.C. as much as he does the racists he encounters.
(c) He loves Alabama.
(d) As fondly of M.C. as he does Homer and the Oliver family.

2. In Chapter 20, what is the Farm?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A farm.
(c) A church.
(d) A commune.

3. Who attends the celebration at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) Peter's family.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) Peter's roommate.
(d) The president.

4. In Chapter 24, a pickup truck pulls over to Peter. Who is driving the truck?
(a) An old man.
(b) A young woman.
(c) A drunk man.
(d) Peter's dad.

5. What offer does Governor Wallace make Peter?
(a) Leave town or else.
(b) He offers financial assistance.
(c) To stay at his home.
(d) To work for him in exchange for food.

6. In Chapter 17, why are the men at the mill mad at Peter?
(a) Peter has an affair with a mill worker's wife.
(b) They think he is an informant.
(c) Peter sucks up to the boss.
(d) Peter offends them.

7. What natural disaster strikes Murphy in Chapter 18?
(a) A blizzard.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A hurricane.

8. When Mary Oliver receives word of the threat, what does she tell her sons to do?
(a) Gather all of the guns in the house.
(b) Hide in the basement.
(c) Do not talk to Peter.
(d) Run away.

9. At the end of Chapter 23, what does Peter decide to try and do?
(a) To meet the president.
(b) Call home.
(c) To try catfish.
(d) To meet Govenor Wallace.

10. At the end of Chapter 25, Peter goes to a restaurant and meets a black man. Where did the black man send his children to school?
(a) His children did not go to school.
(b) His children went to public school.
(c) His children went to school out of state.
(d) His children went to private school.

11. Why do the bootleggers dislike Peter?
(a) He is telling lies about them.
(b) He does not pay them for goods.
(c) He steals from them.
(d) They think he was the cause of the raid.

12. Where are Peter and Cooper at the beginning of Chapter 18?
(a) The church.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The woods.
(d) The police station.

13. At the start of Chapter 24, whom does Peter call?
(a) His mother.
(b) His attorney.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

14. At the Farm Peter meets many people, why does Peter never meet Stephen Gaskin?
(a) Stephen does not want to meet Peter.
(b) Peter has no time to meet Stephen.
(c) No one can meet Stephen.
(d) Stephen is in jail.

15. What idea does M.C. put into Peter's head?
(a) That Peter should become a farmer.
(b) That Peter should quit his journey.
(c) That Peter needs to find a good southern woman.
(d) That Peter should become a vegetarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter realize at the end of Chapter 20?

2. In Chapter 15, who does Peter discover lives in Murphy?

3. At the Farm Peter learns of Stephen Gaskin. Who is Stephen Gaskin?

4. After the white church is destroyed, where do the white people go to pray?

5. Why does Peter not set up his tent in Chapter 24?

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