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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Grant had less time to do?
(a) To sleep
(b) To worship
(c) To eat
(d) To be with Vivian

2. What visit number is it when Miss Emma gets sick?
(a) The fourth visit
(b) The sixth visit
(c) The third visit
(d) The second visit

3. What is Grant going to tell Miss Emma that Jefferson ate and enjoyed?
(a) The chicken
(b) The pralines
(c) The bread
(d) The corn

4. Grant is worried that the guards will do what when he goes to the jail on his own?
(a) Ignore him
(b) Lock him up
(c) Beat him
(d) Ask him to strip or to look in his mouth

5. What does Grant long to have?
(a) More money
(b) More peace with his family
(c) More sex
(d) More control over his life

6. Who does Grant see joking that makes him question his role as a teacher?
(a) Women
(b) His own students
(c) Deliverymen
(d) Children

7. What is searched before Miss Emma and Grant go to Jefferson's cell?
(a) Their shoes
(b) Miss Emma's purse
(c) Their clothing
(d) Her parcels

8. When Jefferson does not eat, what does Grant pick up and eat?
(a) Vegetables
(b) Chicken
(c) Corn
(d) The candy

9. Who is upset with Jefferson's fate and pours herself a drink?
(a) Inez
(b) Vivian
(c) Irene
(d) Edna Guidry

10. Miss Emma asks Tante Lou why _____ hates her.
(a) Grant
(b) God
(c) Jefferson
(d) Pichot

11. What is displayed in front of the court building?
(a) A statue of a Confederate soldier
(b) A large statue of the scales of justice
(c) A placard with the Bill of Rights
(d) A statude of an infantry man

12. Who is the young African American man at the center of the trial?
(a) Jefferson
(b) Brother
(c) Bear
(d) Grope

13. What does Grant notice through the barred window?
(a) Dark clouds
(b) Blue sky and yelllow leaves
(c) Darkness
(d) Spring buds

14. Who is in charge of scheduling the execution?
(a) Rougon
(b) Guidry
(c) The big boss in Baton Rouge
(d) Pichot

15. The reverend asks Grant if it would be appropriate to take a ________ when his visits Jefferson. Grant agrees.
(a) Book
(b) Radio
(c) Bible
(d) Blanket

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Grant decide to walk along the road?

2. Where did the men in #3 end up going?

3. Where did Vivian attend school?

4. Who is the fellow teacher with whom Grant is having an affair?

5. What does Vivian suggest Grant do to pass the time?

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