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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Meridian: Indians and Ecstasy, English Walnuts, and The Happy Mother.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Sacred Serpent?
(a) A bar.
(b) A tribal dance.
(c) An Indian burial mound.
(d) A new dance.

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

3. What are Anne-Marion's religious beliefs?
(a) She is Catholic.
(b) She is Jewish.
(c) She is an atheist.
(d) She is Baptist.

4. Who was the woman who planted the large magnolia tree?
(a) Laurette.
(b) Lorraine.
(c) Lovie.
(d) Louvinie.

5. In what state is the town of Chicokema?
(a) Florida.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Arizona.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Meridian unable to believe existed during her childhood?

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

3. Meridian tells Truman that he looks like ______________.

4. What is the only thing Truman finds in Meridian's house?

5. Meridian's mother feels that her children took away her _______________.

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