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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 Avey doing at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Drinking coffee.
(b) Reading the paper.
(c) Waking up.
(d) Taking a shower.

2. What does the little girl, Avey, feel as the congregation increases its intensity in responding to the preacher's questions?
(a) She wants to run away.
(b) She wants to cry.
(c) She wants to scream.
(d) She wants to vomit.

3. Who do the old women on the boat remind Avey of?
(a) The old women in the congregation when she was a girl.
(b) Great Aunt Cuney and her sister.
(c) Sis and Marion.
(d) Her mother and aunts.

4. What is the cause of Avey's husband's death?
(a) Stroke.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Heart attack.

5. About what does Avey reflect on in Chapter 5?
(a) The high price her family paid for affluence.
(b) Her husband's infidelity.
(c) The boy she had loved in school.
(d) Her grandchildren.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Avey dream of while below deck on the ship?

2. While Avey is on the boat, where does she dream that she is?

3. Who is one of the Oldest Ones who approaches Avey after the dance?

4. Which of the following does Avey think that her family lost?

5. What is Avey dreaming of prior to waking?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways is Avey's meltdown at the hotel a clearing of the path for her spiritually?

2. What does Avey mean when she says that her life is a tabula rasa?

3. What does Lebert regard Avey as and how does he convince her to go to the island with him?

4. What does Avey sense as she awakens in the hotel room after her night of being emotionally exhausted?

5. How does Lebert Joseph become Avey's guide, in a sense, to her reclaiming her life?

6. What is Juba and what might it mean for Avey?

7. What does Avey feel her family exchanged for its affluence?

8. What is the significance of the preacher's sermon in Avey's dream for her life now?

9. What is Lebert's interest in determining Avey's tribe?

10. Describe Avey's behavior on the beach.

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