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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 takes the bakke in Section 3?
(a) Bam and July.
(b) Royce and July.
(c) July and another man.
(d) Maureen and Bam.
2. Who does Bam meet that would like to use the gun?
(a) John.
(b) Victor.
(c) Alex.
(d) Daniel.
3. To whom is Maureen introduced in Section 2?
(a) July's brother.
(b) July's father.
(c) July’s wife and mother.
(d) July’s children.
4. What do Maureen and Bam fear their lives will become, as described in Section 1?
(a) Meaningless in their support of white rights.
(b) Meaningless in their support of white power.
(c) Meaningless in their support of black power.
(d) Meaningless in their support of black rights.
5. What surprises July’s wife about Maureen upon first meeting her?
(a) She’s not kind.
(b) She’s not attractive.
(c) She’s not rich.
(d) She’s not a good mother.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is happening politically, economically, and socially in the novel?
2. Why does July make Bam move the car in Section 1?
3. What is understood by July's girlfriend in the city to be July’s responsibilities?
4. What does Maureen understand about the question she asks July in Section 5 that puts him ill at ease?
5. Why do Bam and Maureen continue to listen to the radio?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does July object to Maureen’s use of his wife’s cough syrup?
2. What happened to the blacks under the Small’s employ, including July?
3. Why is July so humiliated that Maureen doesn’t like him having the car keys?
4. Describe what Bam and July are able to make for the village.
5. What is July’s plan to tell people, when they question his driving of the bakke, and why does Bam object?
6. What does Maureen realize now about how she treated July, and her assumption that he has taken the keys as one friend takes them from another?
7. Describe the photograph of young Maureen and her housekeeper Lydia, and why it is important.
8. What does July learn to do in Section 4, and who teaches him?
9. Explain Martha and July's mother's reaction to meeting Maureen in Section 2.
10. Describe the bakke, and its use in the Smalls family, both previously and currently.
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