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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is noticeable about Meridian's appearance at this point in the story?
(a) Her hair is white.
(b) She walks with a limp.
(c) Her hair is growing back in.
(d) She is stooped.

2. What is the topic of some of the poetry Lynne writes?
(a) Gentleness in the Revolution.
(b) Saving the environment.
(c) The forces of nature.
(d) Old lovers.

3. Why did the woman have to go back to her husband after she left him?
(a) She couldn't care for her kids on her own.
(b) She loved him too much to stay away.
(c) He got sick and needed her.
(d) He threatened to kill her if she didn't.

4. Lynne thinks her parents are ______________.
(a) Loving.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Vindictive.
(d) Ignorant.

5. Meridian goes back to church at a ____________ church.
(a) Methodist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Baptist.

6. Who is Rims Mott?
(a) A welder.
(b) A painter.
(c) A plumber.
(d) An electrician.

7. Where do Truman and Meridian sleep when they are on the road?
(a) A truck stop.
(b) A sleeping bag.
(c) A bed & breakfast.
(d) A cheap hotel.

8. What does Meridian come to realize about herself?
(a) She needs to be more assertive.
(b) She is too judgmental.
(c) She could kill for the movement.
(d) She should reveal her feelings more often.

9. What feeling washes over Lynne as she is raped?
(a) Fear.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Anger.
(d) Relief.

10. What does Lynne try to think about the man in #121 as he rapes her?
(a) If she can reach the phone.
(b) If she can get a knife from the kitchen.
(c) All the good things about him.
(d) Where her gun is.

11. Who is being honored at the gathering of people?
(a) Robert Kennedy.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

12. The man in #121 wants to know what it is Lynne can't stand--_____________ or blacks.
(a) Heroes.
(b) Frauds.
(c) Cheats.
(d) Cripples.

13. Of what does Tommy Odds particularly disapprove regarding white women in the Civil Rights movement?
(a) Their affairs with black men.
(b) Their unwillingness to work.
(c) Their uppity manners.
(d) The way they dress.

14. What dish has the man prepared for his sick wife?
(a) Meat loaf.
(b) Toast.
(c) Chicken soup.
(d) Venison stew.

15. What does Meridian tell Lynne before she leaves?
(a) She's tried not to hate her.
(b) She is the best friend she has ever had.
(c) She is in love with Truman.
(d) She is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lynne say are the only people who ever loved her?

2. Why did the man quit his job?

3. When does "Free at Last" take place?

4. What is Lynne's religious affiliation?

5. At what kind of factory did the man used to work?

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