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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Minnie doing when Act I, Scene IV ends?

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

3. What happens when Sophie and Fannie walk in on Minnie and Frank?

4. What does Frank hate about the U.S.?

5. What does Fannie include in her drawings of Nicodemus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Minnie's reaction when she first sees Frank dead?

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

3. Sophie and Fannie give Minnie a deed to a third of the property for her 21st birthday. How do Minnie and Frank react to the gift?

4. Frank quickly passes Fannie and Miss Leah but stops to talk with Sophie. Why does he react so differently with the women?

5. What vision does Sophie have for Nicodemus?

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

7. Wil mentions that he does not understand black-on-black crime when they have enough to deal with from white folk. Why would this not apply to Frank?

8. What is Sophie's reaction when Minnie hands over the deed and what does that say about Sophie?

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

10. When Minnie greets her sisters, she mentions that Frank is talking to a man from the train, "a white man" she adds. Why does Minnie add this remark of a white man?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write about what Minnie's life as the youngest sister is like. How does where Minnie's life is heading compare to where black independence is heading?

Essay Topic 2

Miss Leah convinces the household to murder Frank with an apple pie rather than shoot him outright. Explain how this is preferable and why it might not work today.

Essay Topic 3

Miss Leah remarks that everything they do is all for the children. How and why are children so important to Miss Leah?

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