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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. What does Maureen understand must be balanced in black affairs?
(a) Love and money.
(b) Desire and duty.
(c) Money and desire.
(d) Duty and love.

2. What makes the children happy, as nothing can?
(a) Driving.
(b) Volleyball.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Buying things.

3. In Section 5, what does Maureen wonder about the town woman?
(a) Whether she loves July.
(b) Whether she is married.
(c) Whether she has children.
(d) Whether July loves her.

4. Why does the old woman become angry with July in Section 2?
(a) He spent too much money.
(b) He killed the wrong chicken.
(c) He wrongly thatched the roof.
(d) He is cruel.

5. What does Maureen become aware of in Section 2 that she is ignorant of in this village?
(a) The order of the day.
(b) The date.
(c) Family traditions.
(d) The year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is July’s favorite child?

2. Why does July's family have a difficult time understanding why he had to bring the Smalls?

3. What does Maureen keep secret from Bam in Section 4?

4. Who takes the bakke in Section 3?

5. What does Maureen realize the people in town will see about July?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think July is so insistent that the Smalls continue to allow him and his family to work for them?

2. What does the son mean when he says “They can’t do anything. Nothing to us anymore” (pg 21).

3. Explain Maureen’s reaction to meeting Martha and July’s mother in Section 2.

4. What does July say that makes Maureen equally angry in Section 5?

5. Explain what Maureen discovers as she notices various gadgets being used around the village.

6. Describe the bakke, and its use in the Smalls family, both previously and currently.

7. What does Martha mean in Section 2 when she says she was surprised at the way Maureen looked?

8. What is July’s plan to tell people, when they question his driving of the bakke, and why does Bam object?

9. What does Victor’s anger at the “stealing” of “their” water show?

10. Describe what Bam and July are able to make for the village.

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