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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lynne doing with the black children at the beginning of this section?
(a) They are eating ice cream.
(b) They are playing Candyland.
(c) They are swimming.
(d) They are playing with her hair.

2. What is a central part of Meridian's experience?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Theater.
(c) Sex.
(d) School.

3. What happens to Meridian's baby?
(a) Her mother takes him.
(b) She gives him away.
(c) He dies.
(d) He is in foster care.

4. What is stuck on the walls of Meridian's house?
(a) Letters and poems.
(b) Take-out menus.
(c) Old gum.
(d) Posters.

5. Where does Meridian visit her father in "Indians and Ecstasy?"
(a) His bedroom.
(b) The hospital.
(c) At school.
(d) His shed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Anne-Marion?

2. Who is Truman's wife?

3. Lynne views the black people of the South as ____________.

4. For whom did Meridian's father mourn?

5. What physical problems does Meridian begin to suffer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Truman encounter Meridian after so many years in the town of Chicokema?

2. Why do the girls not see that cutting down The Sojourner is a self destructive act?

3. What is the nature of Truman and Lynne's relationship at the end of the book?

4. How have Meridian and Lynne changed when Lynne comes for a visit?

5. How does Meridian's guilt escalate when she gives up her son to go to college?

6. What is the meaning of Meridian's burying the gold under a magnolia tree as a child?

7. What does Lynne tell Meridian about her past experiences with black men and how they have impacted her life?

8. What is the symbolism of the new branch growing from The Sojourner?

9. Why is guilt so prevalent in Meridian's life and how does it begin?

10. What is the sad story of the young girl in prison for killing her baby?

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