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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 shacks are supposed to be haunted?
(a) The Bertram Shacks.
(b) The Henderson Shacks.
(c) The Canebrake shacks.
(d) The Richard Shacks.

2. What does Mack need from his mother?
(a) Help filling out forms.
(b) Money.
(c) Food.
(d) Clothes.

3. What happens if you curse the echo tree in "Echo Tree"?
(a) You become an albino.
(b) Your family shuns you.
(c) Nothing.
(d) You die.

4. Where does Headeye go at the end of the story?
(a) To college.
(b) To heaven.
(c) To his mother's.
(d) Off with the men on the ark.

5. Who is the dead brother in "Echo Tree"?
(a) Jim.
(b) Henry.
(c) Leo.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the music of the afro-horn kill?

2. Where did Probe get his instrument?

3. Where does Mack want to go with his friend?

4. What do Mack's parents drink while they play their game?

5. What do Tate and his friends all want desperately in "Double Nigger"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the crew pull out of the water in "Ark of Bones"?

2. What seems to be the purpose of the work the men on the ark do in "Ark of Bones"?

3. How do the police treat the main characters in "Strike and Fade"?

4. What does Nillmon intend to do to Fon in "Fon"?

5. Where does Headeye go in "Ark of Bones" at the end of the story?

6. What will happen to people who curse the Echo Tree in "Echo Tree"?

7. What happens to the white people who talk their way into the club to hear Probe in "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"?

8. What is the reason the story "Double Nigger" is so titled?

9. In "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," what instrument does Probe play and how did he get it?

10. How does Layton Bridges generally feel in "Goodbye, Sweetwater"?

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