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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Truman Held: Truman and Lynne: Time in the South, Of Bitches and Wives, and The New York Times.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Truman next visit Meridian?
(a) On Christmas Eve.
(b) At the college reunion.
(c) When her mother dies.
(d) Three years after his marriage to Lynne.

2. Where does Meridian visit her father in "Indians and Ecstasy?"
(a) At school.
(b) His bedroom.
(c) His shed.
(d) The hospital.

3. What did Anne-Marion do to make the Dean of Women so angry?
(a) She cut off her hair.
(b) She led a strike of cafeteria workers.
(c) She smoked in the classroom.
(d) She had a boy in her dorm room.

4. Meridian's mother says that only _____________ wouldn't want her own baby.
(a) A monster.
(b) A narcissist.
(c) A slut.
(d) A psychotic.

5. During what decade does the story take place?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1930s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne-Marion notice about Meridian one day?

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

3. What did the woman in #24 bury beneath the big magnolia tree?

4. What was Meridian's father's profession?

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

(see the answer key)

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