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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lynne doing with the black children at the beginning of this section?
(a) They are swimming.
(b) They are playing Candyland.
(c) They are eating ice cream.
(d) They are playing with her hair.

2. Meridian's mother's demeanor can be characterized as ____________.
(a) Jovial.
(b) Angry.
(c) Shy.
(d) Introverted.

3. Who is the father of Meridian's child?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Duane.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Todd.

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

5. What did George Daxter give Meridian in exchange for sexual favors?
(a) Candy and money.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Movie tickets.
(d) New clothes.

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

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

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

9. Who collapses after taking the children to see the exhibit at the circus?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Meridian.
(c) Truman.
(d) Marchelle.

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

11. Lynne views the black people of the South as ____________.
(a) Problems.
(b) Victims.
(c) Voters.
(d) Art.

12. What task does Meridian do at the Civil Rights office?
(a) Make coffee.
(b) Type a petition.
(c) Make phone calls.
(d) Hand out flyers.

13. Who is Meridian's friend who also got pregnant at the age of 14?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Gemma.
(c) Nelda.
(d) Janelle.

14. What do Meridian and Anne-Marion hate?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Tiramisu.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Bell bottom jeans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Meridian's baby?

2. What happens to people in the serpent mound's tail?

3. Who was Meridian's great-grandmother?

4. Who has Truman married?

5. What is Meridian's last name?

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