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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Jacob when he starts writing Isaac?
(a) 63.
(b) 62.
(c) 65.
(d) 64.

2. About how tall was Rachel when Jacob met her?
(a) 5 feet 2 inches.
(b) 5 feet 5 inches.
(c) 5 feet 7 inches.
(d) 5 feet 8 inches.

3. How old was Isaac when Jacob started forcing boy things upon him?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 9.

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

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

6. How many days off did Jacob and Esau have when they were teens and working with their grandfather?
(a) 1 a month.
(b) 1 a week.
(c) None.
(d) A couple a year.

7. How old was Jacob when Isaac was born?
(a) 22.
(b) 21.
(c) 23.
(d) 20.

8. What year did Jacob start school?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1948.

9. Where did Rachel want to go to college?
(a) Howard.
(b) Morris.
(c) Shaw.
(d) Oberlin.

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

11. When was Black's father a boy growing up?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1938.

12. Who did Charlie Rhodes think was the most revolutionary leader Black people ever had?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Frejderick Douglass.
(c) Malcolm.
(d) John Lewis.

13. When did Jacob and Rachel marry?
(a) June 13, 1962.
(b) May 11, 1962.
(c) July 8, 1962.
(d) August 17, 1962.

14. When was Issac born?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

15. What Black performer did Jacob see when he moved to Kansas City?
(a) B.B. King.
(b) Billie Holiday.
(c) Mahalia Jackson.
(d) James Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Jacob think it a better time to die than in his 60s?

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

3. How far did Jacob have to walk when he visited Rachel at her great-aunt's house?

4. Where did Rachel begin volunteering?

5. What book does Jacob say changed Rachel's life?

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