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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would Deborah have taken in Royal?
(a) She wanted to please Gabriel
(b) She was barren
(c) She loved him
(d) He needed a mother

2. Why did Gabriel steal money?
(a) To fix the church roof
(b) To runaway with Esther
(c) To pay for an abortion
(d) So Esther could move away

3. Whose forehead does Gabriel want to crush?
(a) John's
(b) Roy's
(c) Elizabeth's
(d) A whiteman's

4. What did Elizabeth work as on Wall Street?
(a) A secretary
(b) A financial analyst
(c) A cleaner
(d) A shoe shiner

5. What is Roy's first name in full?
(a) Ronald
(b) Royal
(c) Raymond
(d) Rudolf

6. Which of the following words can be used to describe Esther?
(a) Irreligious
(b) Religious
(c) Crazy
(d) Serious

7. Where did Richard ask Elizabeth to move with him to?
(a) New York
(b) Chicago
(c) Denver
(d) Seattle

8. What did Elizabeth's aunt say God would do to her soon enough?
(a) Forgive her
(b) Shoot her down
(c) Lay her low
(d) Embrace her

9. Where did Gabriel first become a well known preacher?
(a) Mississippi
(b) North Carolina
(c) Georgia
(d) New York

10. What does Elizabeth recall as a frightening experience?
(a) Giving birth to John
(b) Finding Richard dead
(c) Her honeymoon
(d) Moving to New York

11. What room in the white people's house did Gabriel first make love to Esther?
(a) The games room
(b) The bedroom
(c) The lounge
(d) The kitchen

12. Why could Deborah not bear Gabriel children?
(a) She had a fear of sex
(b) She did not want to have his children
(c) She was brutally raped
(d) She wanted to stay pure for God

13. Who did Gabriel steal money from?
(a) His mother
(b) Esther
(c) Florence
(d) Deborah

14. Who does Gabriel promise Elizabeth he will love as his own?
(a) Andy
(b) Jack
(c) Roy
(d) John

15. What had the black youth just robbed?
(a) A house
(b) An old lady
(c) A store
(d) A bank

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Gabriel that Royal had died?

2. What city did Esther send Gabriel a letter from?

3. Why does Elizabeth think she should have told Richard about her pregnancy?

4. Who did Elizabeth meet in 1919?

5. What does Elizabeth call her innocence?

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