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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much older was Jacob's brother, Esau, than Jacob?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 15 months.
(c) 20 months.
(d) 1 1/2 years.

2. How old was Isaac when Rachel started drinking?
(a) 7 months.
(b) 11 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 9 months.

3. How long did it take for Jacob to save to buy Isaac a piano?
(a) About 18 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) Over a year.
(d) 30 months.

4. What was the name of Rachel's aunt that she came to see when she visited Arkansas?
(a) Miss Fannie.
(b) Miss Agatha.
(c) Miss Josephine.
(d) Miss Loretha.

5. What is Jacob dying from?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Hepatitis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Black lung disease.

6. How tall was Jacob when he and Rachel met?
(a) 5 feet 11 inches.
(b) 6 feet 1.
(c) 6 feet.
(d) 6 feet 3 inches.

7. What time of the year did Jacob leave Blackwell for Kansas City?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

8. At what mall did Jacob, Rachel, and Isaac see a man playing the piano and inspired Isaac to want to play?
(a) Antioch Center.
(b) Indian Springs Mall.
(c) The Landing.
(d) Blue Ridge Mall.

9. When did the American government start the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1940s.

10. What book does Jacob say changed Rachel's life?
(a) Beyond Gender.
(b) The FOuntain of Age.
(c) The Feminine Mystique.
(d) The Problem That Has No Name.

11. How old was Jacob when watched some other boys torment a boy named Elliott Strong on the playground?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 11 or 12.
(d) 10 or 11.

12. Where was Bobby Joe working in Kansas City when Jacob went to Kansas City?
(a) Tyson Meats.
(b) National Beef Packing.
(c) Folger Coffee Company.
(d) Goodyear Tire & Rubber.

13. Who did Jacob think Isaac looked like?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) Esau.

14. When does Jacob remember seeing Margaret Thatcher become the leader of the British Conservative Party?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1973.

15. When did Esau die?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was Jacob's grandfather's coffin?

2. What does Jacob's grandmother have him help her bake one time?

3. When was Black's father diagnosed with Alzheimer's?

4. How old was Isaac when Jacob started forcing boy things upon him?

5. What did Jacob have for lunch the day Charlie and Fats argued about King becoming the first Black president?

(see the answer keys)

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