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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following events happened when Elizabeth was 8?
(a) She was raped
(b) Her father was lynched
(c) Her father died
(d) Her mother died

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

3. Who is the only man Elizabeth has truly loved?
(a) Roy
(b) Gabriel
(c) Richard
(d) Franklin

4. Why does Elizabeth say she started sleeping with Richard in New York?
(a) She wanted a child
(b) She found him irresistible
(c) She wanted to show him she would make a good wife
(d) No one cared how she acted

5. Who is the son that God promised Gabriel in a dream?
(a) Roy
(b) Davis
(c) Abe
(d) John

6. What does Gabriel see in John's eyes?
(a) Laughter
(b) An accusation
(c) Hurt
(d) Sin

7. 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

8. What important event happened in Gabriel life at the age of 22?
(a) He married
(b) He moved north
(c) He found God
(d) He overdosed

9. What city did Esther send Gabriel a letter from?
(a) Denver
(b) New York
(c) Seattle
(d) Chicago

10. Whose point of view is this chapter mostly told from?
(a) Roy
(b) Elizabeth
(c) John
(d) Florence

11. What shift did Elizabeth work at the Wall Street offices?
(a) Afternoons
(b) Mornings
(c) Nights
(d) Split shift

12. Why would no one else marry Deborah?
(a) She had been raped
(b) She was ugly
(c) She was crazy
(d) She could not bear children

13. What does Gabriel say he gained recognition for after he found God?
(a) His kindness
(b) His radical beliefs
(c) His sermons
(d) His sense of humor

14. What was John when Gabriel married Elizabeth?
(a) An unnamed child
(b) A devil child
(c) A miserable child
(d) A dying child

15. What did Richard work as?
(a) Butcher boy
(b) Grocery clerk
(c) Secretary
(d) Courier

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose forehead does Gabriel want to crush?

2. What does Elizabeth recall as a frightening experience?

3. What does Elizabeth say she wants to take advantage of by moving north?

4. Why would Deborah have taken in Royal?

5. Why could Elizabeth not leave Richard?

(see the answer keys)

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