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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Karintha do as a child?
(a) Loved to read.
(b) Played baseball.
(c) Danced with older boys.
(d) Gossiped about her peers.

3. What do the cotton pickers wear?
(a) Sandals.
(b) No shoes.
(c) Boots.
(d) Leather shoes.

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

5. How many sons did Becky have?
(a) None.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

6. On what does Karintha give birth to her child?
(a) Pine needles.
(b) An old blanket.
(c) A grassy field.
(d) A wooden floor.

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

8. How is the soil described in "Song of the Son"?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Gray.

9. What has Karintha's abuse in the past caused her to do?
(a) Wilt like a flower.
(b) Sink in the sand.
(c) Ripen too soon.
(d) Love like a lamb

10. How does the narrator describe Carma's story?
(a) The crudest melodrama.
(b) A dastardly debacle.
(c) The saddest tragedy.
(d) The finest love story.

11. Who is observing the forest in "Nullo"?
(a) Only the speaker.
(b) The townspeople.
(c) Rhobert.
(d) Fern.

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

13. With what does the poem "Nullo" primarily deal?
(a) Fire.
(b) Silence.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Slavery.

14. Where was the cotton song sung?
(a) Never aloud.
(b) In the fields.
(c) At church.
(d) In the kitchen.

15. When she is nine years old, by whom does Esther become entranced?
(a) Paul.
(b) King Barlo.
(c) Rhobert.
(d) Avey.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whose religious changes does "Conversion" deal?

2. How have the woman's wrinkles described in "Face" been made?

3. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?

4. Why did Carma take a lover?

5. For emphasis of the field workers' plight, what does Toomer use?

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