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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Marvella embarrassed to publicly scold her child?
(a) The dreadlock man shakes his head in disgust.
(b) Marvin did not really do anything wrong.
(c) There are white people around.
(d) Marvella does not like handling matters in public.

2. What does Avis ask the dreadlock man when she first sees him?
(a) Avis asks if he has a comb or brush.
(b) Avis asks where he is from.
(c) Avis asks if she can sit next to him.
(d) Avis asks if he thinks her mother is pretty.

3. What was Angie holding in her hand at the time of her death?
(a) The knife.
(b) A hairbrush.
(c) The telephone.
(d) A credit card.

4. In "Gospel", how old is Anita?
(a) 25.
(b) 32.
(c) 35.
(d) 30.

5. Where did Lydia send her mother as 65th birthday present?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Florida.
(c) Ghana.
(d) Israel.

6. When does Lonney marry Brenda?
(a) October.
(b) March.
(c) November.
(d) April.

7. How old is Avis?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

8. Where does Mildred want to go during the conversation with the woman?
(a) Church.
(b) Home.
(c) The corner store.
(d) Woolworth's.

9. What does Mansfield die from?
(a) Cancer.
(b) A car accident.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) A heart attack.

10. How much did the copy of the trial manuscript cost?
(a) $86.75.
(b) $20.80.
(c) $75.86.
(d) $57.40.

11. What time does Santiago call home?
(a) 10pm.
(b) 2am.
(c) 12am.
(d) 1am.

12. How many husbands has Jesse Mae had?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) Only 1, but the women spread rumors that she had married 8 men.
(d) 6.

13. What did Pearl discover about a week after Humphrey was born?
(a) Pearl could no longer produce milk.
(b) Humphrey and Santiago had the same father.
(c) Humphrey's father had been killed.
(d) Pearl was deathly ill.

14. What does Lydia ask of the nurse who calls to inform her of her mother's death?
(a) Lydia asks when her mother passed.
(b) Lydia asks that they simply send her body to the funeral home.
(c) Lydia asks how this has happened.
(d) Lydia asks that they not put the sheet over her face until she has seen her first.

15. How much older than Vivian is her husband, Ralph?
(a) 7 years.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many members does Holy Tabernacle AME Zion have?

2. In "The Store", how much does the protagonist make in a week working at the store?

3. What makes Vivian pause to think how many days she had been on a diet?

4. What does Marcus call the dreadlock man?

5. What is the name of the judge who sentences Samuel Sr.?

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