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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Meridian: The Driven Snow, The Conquering Prince, and The Recurring Dream.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Meridian's feelings of guilt are only abated by ________________.
(a) Meditation.
(b) Police beatings.
(c) Going to Confession.
(d) Volunteer work.

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

4. Who does Truman begin to date?
(a) White girls.
(b) Sorority girls.
(c) Society girls.
(d) Girls from home.

5. How does Meridian think that Truman grieves?
(a) He gets drunk.
(b) He runs away.
(c) He does drugs.
(d) He writes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Meridian and Anne-Marion live at the university?

2. What is the Sacred Serpent?

3. Why is the boy in #47 considered good to Meridian?

4. What did Meridian bury underneath a tree when she was seven?

5. Who is the white exchange student who canvasses with Meridian, asking people to vote?

(see the answer key)

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