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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What news does Minnie yell to stop Sophie from hurting Frank?
(a) That it is Minnie's fault.
(b) That Minnie is pregnant.
(c) That Sophie is overreacting.
(d) That she loves Frank.

3. How does Frank win Minnie over when they first meet?
(a) He dedicates a poem to her.
(b) He writes a poem about her.
(c) He follows her until she agrees to go out on a date.
(d) He sings to her.

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

5. What is Minnie doing when Act I, Scene IV ends?
(a) Giving Frank a kiss goodbye as he leaves for town.
(b) Sewing happily with Miss Leah.
(c) Undoing her plaits.
(d) Timidly rocking back and forth on the porch.

6. How old is Miss Leah when she has her first child?
(a) 13.
(b) 18.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

7. What does Sophie think about Wil's feelings toward Fannie?
(a) She is upset by it.
(b) It doesn't bother her as long as no one is hurt.
(c) She supports it.
(d) She does not understand it.

8. What does Miss Leah think of James, the father of her children?
(a) She despises him.
(b) She has no feelings toward the man.
(c) She loves him more than anything else.
(d) She could have loved him if it was her choice.

9. How did Frank's father meet his mother?
(a) In the town grocery.
(b) His father owned Frank's mother.
(c) They worked on the same plantation.
(d) Frank's mother kept house for Frank's grandfather.

10. What is Sophie celebrating when Miss Leah enters her home?
(a) Her sister coming home.
(b) An end to worrying.
(c) Fannie's birthday.
(d) Her Birthday.

11. According to Miss Leah, Kansas's winter teaches you what?
(a) Your determination to keep free.
(b) There's nothing to hide behind between you and your soul.
(c) Your strength.
(d) Your tenacity to survive.

12. How does Wil show he is a good man?
(a) He is the only one to help Miss Leah walk without a cane.
(b) He helps whomever whenever he can.
(c) He stands up to Frank when he says disrespectful things to the women.
(d) He carries a shotgun and watches over the women's safety.

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

14. What does Minnie wear upon arrival that indicates her lifestyle away from Kansas?
(a) Pants.
(b) A homely dress.
(c) Braids.
(d) Furs.

15. Why is it difficult for Frank to miss colored people?
(a) He is mistreated by blacks wherever he goes.
(b) He never knew many black people.
(c) He never had that community feeling to miss it.
(d) He regrets treating slaves badly when he was younger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Minnie explain her injury?

2. How can the reader tell Sophie is older than Fannie?

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

4. What does Frank learn while he is in town?

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

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