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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wil is raised by whom?
(a) Seminole Natives.
(b) White slaveowners.
(c) His grandparents.
(d) Freed slaves.

2. Why does Frank think Minnie brings no luck?
(a) She's too black.
(b) She's too poor.
(c) She's too dumb.
(d) She's too clumsy.

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

4. What image in the mirror occupies Minnie as she prepares to get ready for dinner?
(a) A bruise on her arm.
(b) A cut on her hand.
(c) A bruised face.
(d) A scar.

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

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

7. Where did Sophie and Fannie come from before arriving in Nicodemus, Kansas?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Memphis.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Mobile.

8. What does Sophie carry with her on her way back from grocery shopping in town?
(a) A chicken.
(b) A shotgun.
(c) An axe.
(d) Wood.

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

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

11. What does Frank hate about the U.S.?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Segregation.
(c) The weather.
(d) The lack of appreciation for poetry.

12. Who is at home waiting to see Minnie?
(a) Miss Baker.
(b) Miss Leah.
(c) Miss Lewiston.
(d) Wil Parrish.

13. Where does Fannie's sister Minnie currently live?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) London.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Paris.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Miss Leah is _________ in regards to her old age.

2. What troubles Frank about his racial history?

3. Why is it difficult for Frank to miss colored people?

4. Who does Frank stop to talk to before he greets Minnie's sisters?

5. Minnie and Frank's relationship can be described as __________.

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