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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the old folks startled by the November cotton flower?
(a) It poisoned the birds.
(b) It came at a strange time of year.
(c) The cotton plant did not normally flower.
(d) It caused strange things to happen.

2. What do all of the men in Karintha's life want to bring her?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Hope.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Money.

3. With which physical attribute on others is Esther preoccupied?
(a) Height.
(b) Blackness.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Muscle.

4. What kind of songs are being sung in the cotton fields by field workers in "Georgia Dusk"?
(a) Blues songs.
(b) Field songs.
(c) Folk songs.
(d) Church songs.

5. What are reapers' relationships to scythes?
(a) They use them as tools.
(b) They cut with them.
(c) They attach to them.
(d) They sharpen them.

6. How did the townspeople know that Becky was alive?
(a) She came to the market.
(b) Her sons told the townspeople.
(c) There was smoke coming out of the chimney.
(d) They saw her through the windows.

7. To whose singing does the author repeatedly compare Fern's face?
(a) An angel child.
(b) A field worker.
(c) A churchgoer.
(d) A Jewish cantor.

8. What animal dies in the field under the blades of the mower in "Reapers"?
(a) A snake.
(b) A bird.
(c) A rat.
(d) A dog.

9. Where was Becky's house?
(a) On a farm.
(b) Next to the railroad tracks.
(c) In the center of town.
(d) In a forest.

10. After finding no wounds in Carma, what does Bane do?
(a) Knifes the men helping him.
(b) Cries.
(c) Kisses Carma.
(d) Runs away.

11. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?
(a) They want to protect her.
(b) They want to possess her.
(c) They want to marry her.
(d) They want to run her out of town.

12. What do the cotton song's lyrics reference?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Easter.
(c) Judgment Day.
(d) Sunday.

13. According to the "Song of the Son," where ought we pour our soul?
(a) In song.
(b) Into others' hearts.
(c) In God.
(d) Onto the page.

14. The pine needles are so quiet in "Nullo" that which animal does not even hear their falling?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Raccoon.
(c) Bear.
(d) Owl.

15. Within the "Song of the Son," to what are slaves compared?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Plums.
(c) Grapes.
(d) Apples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blade of the mower cut in "Reapers"?

2. Upon which of Cloine's body parts is the speaker fixated?

3. Who does the narrator blame for the end of Carma's story?

4. To what does the speaker compare another birth in the family line in "Song of the Son"?

5. How many times has Karintha been married?

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