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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How can the reader tell Sophie is older than Fannie?
(a) Fannie often defers to what Sophie says.
(b) Sophie uses a cane.
(c) Sophie makes better coffee.
(d) Fannie is described as wearing girlish clothing.

3. How does Minnie explain her injury?
(a) She was cutting wood.
(b) She slipped when in New Orleans.
(c) She was dancing and fell in the street.
(d) She fell on the train.

4. Why are Fannie, Sophie, and Minnie staying up so late at night?
(a) They are preparing for their ritual.
(b) They are waiting for Frank to come home.
(c) They are waiting to hear from Wil Parrish.
(d) They are discussing the expansion plans of Nicodemus.

5. How does Fannie show Frank a warm welcome?
(a) She gives him a bear hug.
(b) She smiles warmly at him.
(c) She shakes his hand for a long time.
(d) She kisses his cheek.

6. What place does Wil miss?
(a) London.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Florida.
(d) Paris.

7. What does Sophie show Minnie when Fannie goes to bed?
(a) Miss Leah's surprise quilt for Minnie.
(b) Fannie's writings.
(c) Sophie's plans for Nicodemus.
(d) Fannie's paintings.

8. Minnie and Frank's relationship can be described as __________.
(a) Male dominant.
(b) Female dominant.
(c) Equal.
(d) Unconditionally loving.

9. What troubles Frank about his racial history?
(a) He is part white.
(b) He is part black.
(c) He looks white.
(d) He is part Native American.

10. Sophie, Fannie, and Minnie's relationship is _________.
(a) Formal.
(b) Forced.
(c) Awkward.
(d) Close.

11. How does Fannie prefer Minnie deal with her injury?
(a) Fannie thinks Minnie should talk about it only to Frank.
(b) Fannie prefers to not talk about it at all.
(c) Openly and not hidden.
(d) Quietly among family only.

12. What does Frank do with Minnie before she meets his friends?
(a) Tells her he loves her.
(b) Tells her how to act.
(c) Proposes to her.
(d) Gives her a fashion makeover.

13. What does the reader discover about Sophie's past?
(a) She is a mulatto.
(b) She was part of the Underground Railroad.
(c) She is a mestizo.
(d) She came from a well-respected and educated family.

14. What does Minnie miss about colored people?
(a) Their strength in surviving anything.
(b) The way they look.
(c) The natural comraderie.
(d) Their songs and stories.

15. How does Minnie first react to moving abroad?
(a) She is scared of the novelty.
(b) She is excited about the different culture.
(c) She focuses on her work more than her surroundings.
(d) She does not care as long as she is with Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Fannie's sister Minnie currently live?

2. According to Sophie, a homesteader needs _________ to survive.

3. Why does Frank make Sophie nervous?

4. What image in the mirror occupies Minnie as she prepares to get ready for dinner?

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

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