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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. What happens to Meridian's baby?
(a) He dies.
(b) She gives him away.
(c) Her mother takes him.
(d) He is in foster care.

2. What is Lynne's demeanor when she comes to visit Meridian?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Compassionate.
(c) Passive.
(d) Hostile.

3. What happens to a house in Meridian's neighborhood one night?
(a) It is demolished.
(b) It is hit by a tornado.
(c) It is renovated.
(d) It is firebombed.

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

5. What had happened to Truman and Lynne's daughter a year ago?
(a) She died.
(b) She got married.
(c) She went to the Peace Corps.
(d) She enrolled in college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Anne-Marion do to make the Dean of Women so angry?

2. What does the boy in #47 do when he learns Meridian is pregnant?

3. What kind of business did George Daxter own?

4. What does the government eventually do with Meridian's father's farm?

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

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