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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day of the week did Rawlings's servants typically take off from work?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

2. What did Rawlings bring to share with the Townsends at their party?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A cake.
(d) A bowl of cherries.

3. How did Rawlings come to own her house in Cross Creek?
(a) She inherited it.
(b) She won it in a bet.
(c) She was given it by the government.
(d) She bought it outright.

4. What type of people did Rawlings claim had "been put through the sieve and [now] stand nakedly"?
(a) The rich.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Whites.
(d) The poor.

5. How many bathrooms did Moe help Rawlings build in her home?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

6. Which of the following adjectives best described the wife of Rawlings's tenant?
(a) Bossy.
(b) Kind.
(c) Cold.
(d) Funny.

7. Why did Geechee drink alcohol?
(a) To relieve her depression
(b) Because she had grown up on it.
(c) To keep herself company.
(d) All of the these.

8. Which of the following body parts did Rawlings break when she fell from a horse and required a steel brace?
(a) Her leg.
(b) Her spine.
(c) Her neck.
(d) Her pelvis.

9. What did Moe Sykes do for a living?
(a) He was a chef.
(b) He was a carpenter.
(c) He was a miller.
(d) He was a farmer.

10. Which of the following adjectives did Moe use to describe his wife?
(a) Shrewd.
(b) Stocky.
(c) Stunning.
(d) Slovenly.

11. Which of Rawlings's various suitors had a cleft palate?
(a) Mr. Swilley.
(b) Old Boss.
(c) George Fairbanks.
(d) Moe.

12. What was the name of Rawlings's dog that was sent back to the city after failing miserably at farm life?
(a) Dredge.
(b) Dynamite.
(c) Dodo.
(d) Dinghy.

13. What was Rawlings's grandfather's outhouse lined with photographs of?
(a) Queens.
(b) Baseball players.
(c) Cars.
(d) Dogs.

14. How many children did the Townsend family have when they lived next to Rawlings?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) The number was unknown.

15. Which of Moe's relatives was once superintendent of Rawlings's orange groves?
(a) His great-great grandfather.
(b) His great grandfather.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rawlings's shower located?

2. How many black families lived in Rawlings's neighborhood in Cross Creek.

3. Which of the following parasites were the Towensend children suffering from?

4. What work did Martha regularly do for Rawlings in her home?

5. Which of the following medical conditions was Widow Slater suffering from?

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