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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. When Jacob did get to school, how often did he go?
(a) Once or twice a month.
(b) 5 times a month.
(c) 10 times a month.
(d) Once or twice a week.

2. Where does Jacob remember that he Charlie and other guys from the post office would eat their lunches?
(a) Picnic tables near the parking lot.
(b) Beneath a tree.
(c) Front porch.
(d) Breakroom.

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

4. How long after Jacob marries Rachel, does his grandfather die?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 6 months.

5. How long after Esau died did Jacob's grandmother die?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 30 months.
(d) A year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rachel begin volunteering?

2. How old is Jacob when he starts writing Isaac?

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

4. When does Jacob remember seeing Margaret Thatcher become the leader of the British Conservative Party?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How and when did Esau die?

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

5. What was life like for Black children when Black's father was growing up?

6. What was the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

7. How did Jacob spend his teen years?

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

9. How did Jacob feel when Isaac was born?

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

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