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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Truman Held: Visits, Lynne, and Tommy Odds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the boy in #47 considered good to Meridian?
(a) He doesn't beat her.
(b) He gives her jewelry.
(c) He takes her to clubs.
(d) He gives her money.

2. Why does Meridian feel guilty about giving her baby away?
(a) She should have given it more time.
(b) She knows she will want a child someday.
(c) She promised her mother she wouldn't.
(d) Slave women had their children taken forcibly from them.

3. What did Anne-Marion do to make the Dean of Women so angry?
(a) She led a strike of cafeteria workers.
(b) She smoked in the classroom.
(c) She had a boy in her dorm room.
(d) She cut off her hair.

4. The Civil Rights workers go on a protest march against segregated ________________.
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Schools.
(c) Churches.
(d) Hospitals.

5. What does the boy in #47 do when he learns Meridian is pregnant?
(a) He gives her abortion money.
(b) He marries her.
(c) He denies it.
(d) He calls her a whore.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Tommy blame Lynne?

2. Who was Meridian's great-grandmother?

3. How does Meridian feel when she learns she is pregnant?

4. In what year do Lynne and Truman arrive at the state in #94?

5. What is the topic of some of the poetry Lynne writes?

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