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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ending: Atonement: Later in the Same Life, Settling Accounts, and Release.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman hope?
(a) To have a good Christmas.
(b) To see her grandkids raised.
(c) To be buried on Mother's Day.
(d) To see a black U.S. President.

2. Why does Tommy Odds berate Truman?
(a) For being with a white woman.
(b) For not marrying Meridian.
(c) For dropping out of college.
(d) For being a coward.

3. What did the woman make her husband promise to do if she came back?
(a) He had to stop beating her.
(b) He had to get a better job.
(c) He had to kill the dog.
(d) He had to let her mother move in.

4. What does Lynne do to the man in #121 after he rapes her?
(a) Kisses the place where his arm was amputated.
(b) Stabs him.
(c) Kicks him in the genitals.
(d) Shoots him.

5. When does "Free at Last" take place?
(a) March 1972.
(b) June 1968.
(c) November 1963.
(d) April 1968.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Meridian refuse to do with Truman?

2. Why does Meridian alternately visit Truman and Lynne for a while?

3. What is noticeable about Meridian's appearance at this point in the story?

4. What happens to a house in Meridian's neighborhood one night?

5. Meridian and Truman encounter a man making ___________ out of newspaper.

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