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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Black Shadows.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Geechee's body had been badly damaged in a fight?
(a) Her mouth.
(b) Her ear.
(c) Her hand.
(d) Her eye.

2. Which servant did Rawlings blame for the damage to her house while she was away?
(a) Kate.
(b) She did not blame either of them.
(c) Raymond.
(d) She blamed them both equally.

3. What did Rawlings bribe the children to do by offering to sew them new clothes?
(a) Go to church.
(b) Mow her lawn.
(c) Play nicely with each other.
(d) Go to school.

4. How many white families lived in Rawlings's neighborhood in Cross Creek?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

5. What did Rawlings use to signal to outsiders when her outhouse was in use?
(a) A lock.
(b) A sign.
(c) A flag.
(d) A light.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following do rattlesnakes have a poor sense of?

2. What did Rawlings claim was the only thing holding Martha back from becoming an aristocrat?

3. What type of people did Rawlings claim had "been put through the sieve and [now] stand nakedly"?

4. How did Rawlings feel when Kate's brother, an ex-servant, offered Rawlings his protection?

5. Which of the following Mickens family members claimed that, "if you love the area you will make it, and no one ever goes hungry" ?

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