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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. What did Martha's husband do for a living during the time she worked with Rawlings?
(a) Her husband was unemployed.
(b) Her husband was a mechanic.
(c) Her husband was a butler.
(d) Her husband was a farmer.

2. What color was Rawlings's hammock soil?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Black.

3. Why did Rawlings regularly leave her house unlocked?
(a) Because locks hadn't been invented yet.
(b) Because she trusted all her neighbors.
(c) Because she frequently forgot.
(d) Because she was generous with her belongings.

4. Where did Rawlings's editor live?
(a) In New York.
(b) In Chicago.
(c) In Seattle.
(d) In San Francisco.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of animal was Jib?

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

3. What item did Rawlings forget to take to her beach house and her kind neighbors brought for her in their truck?

4. How many children did the Townsend family have when they lived next to Rawlings?

5. Which of Rawlings's relatives helped her devise the system of use for her outhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mr. Swilley believe that Rawlings was in love with him, and why did Rawlings let him go from her service?

2. What health problem were the Townsend children suffering from when Mary arrived at their pound party?

3. Why did Rawlings return Georgia to her father?

4. After she left Rawlings's home for the first time, what type of working relationship did Geechee have with the farm?

5. What connection did Rawlings see between African-American children and imagination through her experiences with Patsy?

6. How did Mr. Marsh Turner die?

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

8. How did Rawlings help Snow Slater after he was abandoned by his family?

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

10. How did the Townsends entertain Rawlings at their pound party?

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