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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Lynne recall about the place in #139?
(a) Running through the sprinkler.
(b) Catching fireflies.
(c) Eating watermelon in the summers.
(d) Making homemade ice cream.

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

5. What does Meridian leave behind when she goes?
(a) Books.
(b) Furniture.
(c) Dishes.
(d) The railroad cap.

6. What name does Lynne call the woman in #131?
(a) Miss Scarlett.
(b) White witch.
(c) Mammy.
(d) Hussy.

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

8. Where does Lynne decide to live?
(a) Her old house.
(b) Meridian's house.
(c) Her parents' house.
(d) Truman's studio.

9. Meridian and Truman take a picture of _____________ to the girl in prison for killing her baby.
(a) A balloon.
(b) Snow.
(c) The sky.
(d) An apple.

10. Where does Lynne go after she gets pregnant with Camara?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Atlanta.

11. Why does the man in #121 bring some NOTC boys to Lynne's house the next day?
(a) To get her to type a petition.
(b) To rape her.
(c) To get her to hand out flyers.
(d) To apologize to her.

12. What do Lynne and Meridian do on their last night together?
(a) Sip wine and talk.
(b) Watch a TV program.
(c) Cook dinner together.
(d) Go to a movie.

13. What did the woman make her husband promise to do if she came back?
(a) He had to stop beating her.
(b) He had to kill the dog.
(c) He had to let her mother move in.
(d) He had to get a better job.

14. Why does Lynne go to Truman's studio?
(a) To take him something to eat.
(b) To tell him Camara has been attacked.
(c) To tell him Meridian is dying.
(d) To tell him to come home.

15. What article of clothing does Meridian wear all the time?
(a) Overalls.
(b) Painter pants.
(c) Flip flops.
(d) Railroad cap.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rims Mott?

2. Meridian and Truman talk about the willingness to __________.

3. What does the woman hope?

4. Of what does Tommy Odds particularly disapprove regarding white women in the Civil Rights movement?

5. What kind of relationship does Truman want with Meridian?

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