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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following Cross Creek families was described as having "baby after baby"?
(a) The Townsends.
(b) The Morrisons.
(c) The Marshes.
(d) The Turners.

2. What was Leroy serving a prison sentence for when Rawlings helped bail him out?
(a) Manslaughter.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Robbery.
(d) Embezzlement.

3. What was the name of Moe's daughter that became ill?
(a) Anna.
(b) Mary.
(c) Susie.
(d) Judy.

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

5. What was the name of the tenant who lived in Rawlings's tenant home?
(a) Richard.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Otis.
(d) Tim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Widow Slater threaten with a gun?

2. What did Slater's daughter, Alvah, save up to purchase for Rawlings at Christmas time?

3. Which of Rawlings's friends was hired to collect census data?

4. How many guests did the Townsends invite to their party?

5. Why did Rawlings regularly leave her house unlocked?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Geechee and Rawlings meet?

2. Why did Rawlings decide to build an indoor shower for herself?

3. How did Rawlings become involved in the Townsend children's education?

4. Who was Tim, and why did he leave Rawlings's property?

5. Who were the Townsends, and what was Rawlings's relationship to them?

6. How did Rawlings come to shoot a pig in her garden?

7. What types of physical maladies were the Slaters suffering from, and why weren't there maladies being treated?

8. What did Rawlings believe Martha would have become in life had she been born white?

9. How did Mr. Marsh Turner die?

10. What parts of Cross Creek added to its beauty, as Rawlings recollected it in the opening chapter of the memoir?

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