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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Meridian: Clouds, The Attainment of Good, Awakening, and Battle Fatigue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the girls at the college riot?
(a) The National Guard has been posted at classrooms.
(b) They are protesting the appointment of the new Dean of Girls.
(c) They want co-ed dorms.
(d) They are prevented from having the Wild Child's funeral there.

2. 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 knows she will want a child someday.
(d) She should have given it more time.

3. What did the woman in #24 bury beneath the big magnolia tree?
(a) Gold coins.
(b) Placenta.
(c) Her severed tongue.
(d) Rare documents.

4. What does Meridian's mother feel about the teachers who teach her children?
(a) She envies them.
(b) She dislikes them.
(c) She pities them.
(d) She likes them.

5. What question does Meridian's mother ask her when Meridian tells her she has a feeling she can't shake?
(a) Are you pregnant.
(b) Do you believe in God.
(c) Have you stolen anything.
(d) Are you in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Meridian and Anne-Marion get involved in what type of procession?

2. Meridian's mother's demeanor can be characterized as ____________.

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

4. Meridian's thoughts are compared to ______________.

5. The Civil Rights workers go on a protest march against segregated ________________.

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