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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the superintendent inspect on the children?
(a) Their feet
(b) Their heads
(c) Their hands
(d) Their teeth

2. Where did Vivian attend school?
(a) Xavier University
(b) Brown
(c) Cornell
(d) Community college

3. Who does Grant hear calling his Tante Lou from the road?
(a) Inez
(b) Pichot
(c) Reverend Ambrose
(d) Eloise Bouie

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

5. What does Grant tell the women of the house about Vivian?
(a) That he wants to marry her
(b) That he doesn't really like her
(c) That she's selfish
(d) That she's going to leave her husband

6. Who grabs a gun and starts shooting?
(a) Jefferson
(b) Bear
(c) Grope
(d) Brother

7. Who is the fellow teacher with whom Grant is having an affair?
(a) Emeline
(b) Vivian
(c) Irene
(d) Inez

8. The Reverend Ambrose tells Miss Emma that God is just ____________.
(a) Vengeful
(b) Not interested in saving Jefferson
(c) Testing her
(d) Being quiet

9. What does Grant apologize for?
(a) The time he's wasted
(b) Nothing
(c) The shabbiness of the home
(d) The piles of work he needs to do

10. Why does Grant whack the student on the head with a ruler?
(a) Because the student sassed him
(b) Because the student was playing with a bug
(c) Because the student was asleep
(d) Because the student is crying

11. Where do the person in #13 and Grant meet up once she had arranged for a babysitter?
(a) The local market
(b) Rainbow Club
(c) White Rabbit Bar and Lounge
(d) Bill's Diner

12. Who is Grant's surprise visitor?
(a) Vivian
(b) Miss Emma
(c) Irene
(d) Pichot

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

14. What does Miss Emma want Pichot to do?
(a) Help Jefferson escape
(b) Try to appeal the verdict
(c) Arrange for a visit between Grant and Jefferson
(d) Nothing

15. How did Grant's teacher say he would be broken down as?
(a) A dog
(b) A hog
(c) A fool
(d) A nigger

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this person give to Grant?

2. Where is the courthouse located?

3. What does Grant give the prisoners as he moves toward Jefferson's cell?

4. What did Jefferson do when Miss Emma arrived in his cell?

5. Miss Emma asks Tante Lou why _____ hates her.

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