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

2. When does Meridian realize she has a feeling of love for Truman?
(a) When he cooks dinner for her.
(b) When he drives her home.
(c) When she is beaten and dragged to jail.
(d) When he tries to teach her Spanish.

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

4. What has a traveling circus brought to town?
(a) A two-headed duck.
(b) The world's fattest woman.
(c) A mummy.
(d) The world's tallest man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of a huge magnolia tree at the college?

2. Where does Meridian visit her father in "Indians and Ecstasy?"

3. How old is Meridian when she has her child?

4. In what state is the town of Chicokema?

5. What was Meridian's mother's profession?

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