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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Miss Leah begin to have children so early?
(a) This allows her to not work on the plantation.
(b) It is the only form of love she knows.
(c) Her slave owner makes her.
(d) She is raped by the slave owner.

2. What surprises Miss Leah about Minnie's life abroad?
(a) Black people get to vote.
(b) There is still slavery.
(c) The education system is not segregated between blacks and whites.
(d) There are no Jim Crow laws.

3. What shows Minnie's ignorance of what Frank cares about in life?
(a) She tells him Sophie forgives him.
(b) She comforts him by saying as long as they have each other, life is fine.
(c) She tells him Nicodemus will be a paradise for black folks.
(d) She asks him doesn't he think the baby should be the first priority.

4. What is Frank adamant about in regard to home?
(a) Home is wherever family is.
(b) It is in London, not Nicodemus.
(c) Home is wherever he and Minnie are together.
(d) It is always in New Orleans and nowhere else.

5. What finally calms Frank down after reading the telegram?
(a) Knowing he has a place to stay in the meantime.
(b) The white men from the train offer him a job.
(c) Minnie's support to head back to New Orleans to handle his issues.
(d) Knowing Minnie has land that is worth a lot of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Minnie and Frank visiting the U.S.?

2. What is it like for Miss Leah the first time she has sex?

3. Where is Sophie when Frank first enters home from town and sees Minnie?

4. How does Wil show he is a good man?

5. What is Sophie trying to convince the Negroes of Nicodemus?

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