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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Jacob's grandmother have him help her bake one time?
(a) Rye bread.
(b) Chocolate cake.
(c) Pound cake.
(d) Sourdough bread.

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

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

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

9. On November 12, 2003, how long does Jacob think it has been since he has seen Isaac?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 10 or 15 years.
(c) 18 years.
(d) 10 or 20 years.

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

11. How many people could the dance floor at Jake's Juke Joint hold?
(a) 40.
(b) 60.
(c) About 75.
(d) 50 or so.

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

13. When Isaac had a crying jag, what was the only thing that would calm him?
(a) Laying on Jacob.
(b) An ice pack.
(c) A warm cloth.
(d) Stroller ride.

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

15. Where was Jacob's grandmother from?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of the year did Jacob leave Blackwell for Kansas City?

2. When did the American government start the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

3. When does Jacob spend most of the day vomiting blood?

4. What type of piano was a man playing at a mall when Isaac decided he wanted to play the piano?

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

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