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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old is Frank when he first travels to Europe?
(a) 18.
(b) 21.
(c) 14.
(d) 30.

3. What is it like for Miss Leah the first time she has sex?
(a) Loving.
(b) Comforting.
(c) She already feels dead inside by this time.
(d) Scary and awful.

4. Who does Frank stop to talk to before he greets Minnie's sisters?
(a) Some white men from the train.
(b) The station manager.
(c) The ticket collector.
(d) Wil Parrish.

5. According to Sophie, a homesteader needs _________ to survive.
(a) A man.
(b) To be white.
(c) Money.
(d) Strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frank can be considered what about prairie life?

2. Out of all the sisters, what does Miss Leah count on Minnie doing?

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

4. Who is interested in the Bakers' land?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Act I, Scene V ends with Minnie's news about her pregnancy. How does this complicate her life even further?

2. What sense of feeling does the reader get when Miss Leah and Minnie talk as Miss Leah braids Minnie's hair?

3. How do so many black people end up in Nicodemus, Kansas? What are they all looking for?

4. Frank's brothers have disowned him since their father's death. How does this explain Frank's defensive insecurities?

5. Why did Miss Leah go west?

6. Frank learns from his poker friends that the sisters are sitting on land that is worth a lot of money. How does this knowledge foreshadow events?

7. Frank consistently hits Minnie but what boundary does he overstep when Minnie tells him she will not sell her land?

8. When Sophie explains to Minnie that she's working on the vote in regard to the speculators, Minnie asks if politics are really important. How does this show Minnie's naivete?

9. Sophie mentions a Joshe and Belle. How does their story influence how Sophie feels about Minnie's domestic situation?

10. Frank is a mulatto, half black and half white. What does this status offer Frank in privileges and consequences?

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