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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Grant is called away to Pichot's house, which student does he leave in charge?
(a) Andrea
(b) Bill
(c) Johnathan
(d) Irene

2. What is the weather like as the Christmas program approaches?
(a) Snowy and cold
(b) Cold and rainy
(c) Clear and calm
(d) Warm and sunny

3. Does Jefferson speak with the other prisoners?
(a) Sometimes
(b) Bonin isn't sure
(c) Yes
(d) No

4. Who serves Grant a drink as he waits for Vivian to arrive?
(a) Inez
(b) Irene
(c) Joe Claiborne
(d) Thelma

5. Who does Jefferson offer his radio to?
(a) Miss Emma
(b) Vincent
(c) Bonin
(d) Grant

6. Who is knocked unconscious during the fight with the bricklayers?
(a) Thelma
(b) Grant
(c) Joe
(d) Edna

7. Who are so prejudiced against darker skinned African Americans that they drop out of school to become bricklayers?
(a) Africans
(b) Mullatos
(c) There is no one like this
(d) Whites

8. From whom does Grant get the money for the item in #124?
(a) Guidry
(b) Vivian
(c) Thelma and Joe Claiborne
(d) Bourgon

9. Who does Grant invite to speak at the beginning and at the end of the Christmas program?
(a) Reverend Ambrose
(b) Pichot
(c) Guidry
(d) Miss Emma

10. What does Grant offer to bring to Jefferson?
(a) Oranges
(b) A new bible
(c) A radio
(d) Porterhouses

11. When does the program start that night?
(a) 5:00
(b) 6:00
(c) 7:00
(d) 8:00

12. Grant also encourages Jefferson to be a _______ to Miss Emma, the children of the quarter, and to him.
(a) Hero
(b) Example
(c) Man
(d) Mentor

13. Who sticks up for Jefferson and his radio?
(a) Grant
(b) Irene
(c) Vivian
(d) No one

14. The women prepare a smaller table with __________ and ________.
(a) a table cloth, china
(b) Alcohol, glasses
(c) place settings, food
(d) Bibles, a radio

15. Who does Grant annoy when he insists on a brand new radio?
(a) Thelma
(b) Vivian
(c) Miss Emma
(d) A white clerk

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kisses Jefferson, causing him to cry?

2. Grant suggests that Bonin tell his students about Jefferson's ________.

3. Who does not plan to get close to Jefferson because he is sentenced to die?

4. What does Jefferson want now because he doesn't think he had enough when he was growing up?

5. What gift does Bonin accept from Jefferson?

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