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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Meridian and Truman leave with the couple?
(a) Food.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Money.
(d) Bible.

3. What is Lynne's religious affiliation?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Atheist.
(d) Jewish.

4. Who is Miss Margaret's sister?
(a) Mablene.
(b) Lucille.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Sissy.

5. Who does Truman envision showing up one day?
(a) Aggie.
(b) Lynne.
(c) Anne-Marion.
(d) Meridian.

6. A picture hanging on Meridian's wall shows _________________.
(a) Anne-Marion's townhouse.
(b) Lynne's new husband.
(c) The Sojourner with a new limb.
(d) Martin Luther King Jr.

7. What is Miss Margaret Treasure doing when Meridian and Truman encounter her?
(a) Darning socks.
(b) Planting tomatoes.
(c) Burning a cornfield.
(d) Snipping beans.

8. Meridian and Truman talk about the willingness to __________.
(a) Judge.
(b) Kill.
(c) Betray.
(d) Love.

9. What does Truman say Meridian is not cut out to do?
(a) Be a mother.
(b) Paint.
(c) Cook.
(d) Kill.

10. Which part of the country does Lynne love?
(a) The South.
(b) The Southwest.
(c) New England.
(d) The Pacific Northwest.

11. What had happened to Truman and Lynne's daughter a year ago?
(a) She died.
(b) She got married.
(c) She went to the Peace Corps.
(d) She enrolled in college.

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

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

14. What does Lynne say was the last thing that bound her and Truman?
(a) Art.
(b) Money.
(c) Civil Rights marches.
(d) Camara.

15. What did Lynne's father tell her when she called to tell him that Camara died?
(a) He is too overcome with grief to talk.
(b) Lynne was dead to him.
(c) He would pay for the funeral.
(d) He wanted her to come home for a while.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lynne decide to live?

2. What does the woman hope?

3. A letter from ______________ hangs on Meridian's wall.

4. Which of the following does Meridian NOT serve when Lynne and Truman visit?

5. Why did the man quit his job?

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