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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. Who did Yaya claim to communicate with?
(a) People on other islands.
(b) Dead people.
(c) Her ancestors.
(d) Abena.

2. Who is Abigail?
(a) Parris's wife.
(b) Parris's daughter.
(c) Parris's sister.
(d) Parris's niece.

3. What theme does John represent?
(a) The ambivalence of love.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Compassion found in religion.
(d) Discrimination.

4. Whose life does Tituba help save?
(a) Betsey.
(b) Abigail.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Parris.

5. The woman who owns sheep alludes to which event?
(a) John Indian's death.
(b) Tituba's death.
(c) The birth of Tituba's child.
(d) The rebirth of Tituba as a spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the poem in Chapter 8?

2. How does Yao die?

3. A girls asks Tituba if she is which of the following?

4. Yaya tells Tituba that which adjective describes all black people?

5. What happens to Tituba on the ship to America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Conde dismiss The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter?

2. How are derogatory words used to describe Tituba significant? Is it appropriate for Conde to include these racial slurs in the book?

3. What does physical subjugation cause for Tituba?

4. How does Tituba feel when her freedom is purchased?

5. How does Tituba describe Elizabeth Parris?

6. What role does love play in Tituba's religion?

7. Why is I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem a mock-epic?

8. Who does Tituba find to be most oppressive?

9. Why does Tituba stop trusting Abigail?

10. Why was the rabbit Iphigene gave Tituba symbolic?

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