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

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

3. What is notable about Meridian's mother's preacher's voice?
(a) It is melodious.
(b) It is booming.
(c) It is soothing.
(d) It is unintelligible.

4. What happens to people in the serpent mound's tail?
(a) They begin to cry.
(b) They can hear voices.
(c) They faint.
(d) They experience ecstasy.

5. What does Anne-Marion tell Meridian when she leaves her?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) She is inspired.
(c) She is a drag.
(d) She is obsolete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business did George Daxter own?

2. Who collapses after taking the children to see the exhibit at the circus?

3. What physical problems does Meridian begin to suffer?

4. Who does Meridian tell about her marriage and child when she is at Saxon?

5. Meridian has a feeling of ___________ that she can't shake.

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does the church play in the Civil Rights movement?

2. What is Meridian's goal in tending to both Lynne and Truman after the death of their daughter?

3. How does Meridian see herself in the young girl in prison and how does that help Meridian?

4. Whose funeral is held in "Free at Last" and why is it viewed from the perspective of poor, black people?

5. What is life like for Truman and Lynne in the South?

6. Why does Meridian begin getting very sick while at Saxon?

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

8. Why does Mrs. Hill think that having children has ruined her life?

9. How do Meridian's parents differ in their views of injustice?

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

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