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

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

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

4. What does the name Isaac mean?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Crown.
(c) Healer.
(d) Protector.

5. What was Rachel's middle name?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Marie.
(c) Anna.
(d) Louisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Abraham Swinton buried?

2. At what mall did Jacob, Rachel, and Isaac see a man playing the piano and inspired Isaac to want to play?

3. What is the name of a girl Jacob remembers played baseball when he was in school?

4. Where was Elliott sitting when boys tormented him on the playground?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Rachel's crushed dream to go to college affect her marriage to Jacob?

2. How did Jacob feel when Isaac was born?

3. What does Jacob remember about playing baseball in school?

4. Why does Jacob write to Isaac?

5. What was the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

6. In 1974, why did Jacob throw away Isaac's action figurines?

7. How was Jacob educated?

8. What were men and women's roles in the 1960s?

9. Why did Jacob decide he would never leave Kansas City once he arrived?

10. What was the house like that Jacob bought when he married Rachel?

(see the answer keys)

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