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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the boy in #47 do when he learns Meridian is pregnant?
(a) He calls her a whore.
(b) He marries her.
(c) He denies it.
(d) He gives her abortion money.

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

4. What was Meridian's father's profession?
(a) Bus driver.
(b) Librarian.
(c) Mechanic.
(d) Teacher.

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

6. Why does a doctor offer to tie Meridian's tubes?
(a) She is too young to keep getting pregnant.
(b) To prevent disease.
(c) In exchange for sexual favors.
(d) She is too ill to have a child.

7. Who is Tommy Odds?
(a) A Civil Rights worker.
(b) A televangelist.
(c) A professor.
(d) A mechanic.

8. Why does Meridian allow her boss to kiss and fondle her?
(a) He takes her on trips.
(b) He gives her big bonuses.
(c) He gives her groceries.
(d) She likes him.

9. What sign is posted in the restaurant window?
(a) Help Wanted.
(b) Whites Only.
(c) Today's Special.
(d) Karaoke Night.

10. What is Truman's last name?
(a) Hansen.
(b) Miller.
(c) McAfee.
(d) Held.

11. What do Truman and Lynne do in the evenings?
(a) Volunteer at the hospital.
(b) Work in the yard.
(c) Watch movies.
(d) Ride on a motorcycle.

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

13. Under what kind of tree does Meridian bury the object in #34?
(a) Peach.
(b) Pine.
(c) Magnolia.
(d) Oak.

14. Meridian's father's walls are filled with what?
(a) Newspaper pages.
(b) Posters.
(c) Oil paintings.
(d) Photos and artifacts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what state do three Civil Rights workers disappear?

2. What was the woman in #24 in charge of overseeing on the Saxon plantation?

3. Why does Tommy Odds berate Truman?

4. What is stuck on the walls of Meridian's house?

5. What does Anne-Marion tell Meridian when she leaves her?

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