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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grant not want to spend his life doing?
(a) Teaching children on a plantation
(b) Being bored
(c) Living in this town
(d) Being oppressed

2. What does Rougon's family own in a neighboring town?
(a) A supermarket
(b) A dry cleaner
(c) A bank
(d) A tailormaking shop

3. How long until this person in #28 can visit Jefferson?
(a) The next day
(b) A month
(c) A couple of weeks
(d) A week

4. What do the children do when they're not in school?
(a) They perform musicals
(b) They play
(c) They work in the fields
(d) They read a lot of books

5. Who says that all in the courtroom know what the outcome of the trial will be?
(a) Miss Emma
(b) Bourgon
(c) Tante Lou
(d) The unnamed narrator

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grant long to have?

2. What does Grant say that angers his lover?

3. Grant tells a student to leave the classroom. Why?

4. What color was Grant's teacher's skin?

5. What does Miss Emma want Grant to help Jefferson know before he is executed?

(see the answer key)

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