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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plan does Miss Leah have for Frank?
(a) Poison him.
(b) Shoot him.
(c) Buy the land back so he can leave.
(d) Let him sell Minnie's land and leave as long as Minnie stays.

2. What is Frank's attitude when Fannie sees Frank on his way out?
(a) In smiles.
(b) Guilty looking.
(c) Hurried.
(d) Depressed.

3. What does Minnie do when she sees Frank in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Takes the deed from his pocket.
(b) Gives him one last hug and kiss.
(c) Cry.
(d) Nothing.

4. How does Minnie and her family know what Frank's situation is in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Wil tells them what he has heard in town.
(b) Frank yells it aloud in anger.
(c) Sophie demands Frank explain his behavior.
(d) Fannie reads the telegram aloud.

5. What does Wil offer Fannie as they talk on the porch?
(a) To beat up Frank.
(b) To kill Frank.
(c) To buy them more land.
(d) To share his land with Fannie and her sisters.

6. What does Miss Leah think of Frank's violent behavior?
(a) Frank needs to learn a lesson.
(b) He will never change.
(c) Minnie can work it out if she becomes a better wife.
(d) It is just a phase.

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

8. Where is Frank going in Act 2, Scene 3 when he encounters Fannie and Miss Leah?
(a) Post office.
(b) Town.
(c) Out for a walk.
(d) Church.

9. Sophie makes a speech in church about the speculators and selling the land. When will the vote take place from the time she gives her speech?
(a) The same day.
(b) The next week.
(c) Not for another month.
(d) The next day.

10. Miss Leah tells stories to Minnie and mentions a man named James. Who is James to Miss Leah?
(a) Miss Leah's late husband.
(b) Miss Leah's previous slave owner.
(c) Miss Leah's overseer.
(d) Miss Leah's first child.

11. What alternative does Frank think can also hurt Sophie?
(a) Getting Fannie to be on his side too.
(b) Burn her fields.
(c) Stay and compete with her to be the leader of the town.
(d) Never letting Sophie see Minnie's baby.

12. What does Frank fear most in his life since receiving the telegram?
(a) Minnie leaving him.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Being killed.
(d) Becoming an ordinary colored person.

13. Frank threatens to do what to Minnie in Act 2, scene 2?
(a) Leave her in Kansas.
(b) Purposefully cause a miscarriage.
(c) Kill her and her family.
(d) Bring her to town and sell her off.

14. What is Minnie most concerned about the day after Frank pushes her in front of her sisters?
(a) Frank's well-being.
(b) What Miss Leah thinks about Frank.
(c) Sophie's reactions.
(d) Her baby.

15. What causes Minnie to stumble her way into the main room in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) She is attacked by black folks on her way home.
(b) She has been beaten by Frank.
(c) She is drunk.
(d) She is attacked by the white men from the train.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Minnie say that shows some doubt about her forgiveness for Frank?

2. What does Sophie shift in her arm that alarms Frank as they talk?

3. When talking to Fannie, what does Minnie say she wants from Frank?

4. What is Frank's reaction to Fannie's offer?

5. Frank shows __________ about his behavior towards MInnie and her family.

(see the answer keys)

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