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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Meridian's thoughts are compared to ______________.
(a) Anchors.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Rainbows.
(d) Poison.
2. What group does Tommy Odds form?
(a) Special Olympics.
(b) Angry Black Men for America.
(c) The Civil Rights Coalition.
(d) Niggers-on-the-Corner-Voter-Machine.
3. What is the Sacred Serpent?
(a) A bar.
(b) An Indian burial mound.
(c) A new dance.
(d) A tribal dance.
4. Meridian's mother feels that her children took away her _______________.
(a) Anger.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Rights.
(d) Happiness.
5. What was the woman in #24 in charge of overseeing on the Saxon plantation?
(a) The kitchen garden.
(b) The bakery.
(c) The brewery.
(d) The butcher shop.
6. What is the name of a huge magnolia tree at the college?
(a) The Sojourner.
(b) The Gatekeeper.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Mother's Tears.
7. For what does Tommy blame Lynne?
(a) For calling him nigger.
(b) For being white.
(c) For graduating college.
(d) For being rich.
8. What is a central part of Meridian's experience?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) School.
(c) Sex.
(d) Theater.
9. What is Lynne doing with the black children at the beginning of this section?
(a) They are playing with her hair.
(b) They are playing Candyland.
(c) They are eating ice cream.
(d) They are swimming.
10. What does the boy in #47 do when he learns Meridian is pregnant?
(a) He denies it.
(b) He calls her a whore.
(c) He marries her.
(d) He gives her abortion money.
11. How does Meridian feel when she learns she is pregnant?
(a) She is sad.
(b) She is shocked.
(c) She is scared.
(d) She is happy.
12. What college does Meridian have the opportunity to attend?
(a) Saxon College.
(b) Emory University.
(c) Hillman College.
(d) Duke University.
13. What has a traveling circus brought to town?
(a) A two-headed duck.
(b) The world's fattest woman.
(c) A mummy.
(d) The world's tallest man.
14. Meridian has a spell of _______________.
(a) Industriousness.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Theatrics.
15. What question does Meridian's mother ask her when Meridian tells her she has a feeling she can't shake?
(a) Have you stolen anything.
(b) Are you pregnant.
(c) Are you in love.
(d) Do you believe in God.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do the girls at the college riot?
2. What does the government eventually do with Meridian's father's farm?
3. How does Meridian think that Truman grieves?
4. Meridian's mother believes that going to church will ___________________.
5. Who has Truman married?
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