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

2. What does Avey reply when asked for her name?
(a) Avey, short for Avatara.
(b) Avatara.
(c) Avey, wife of Jay.
(d) Avatara, goddess of fire.

3. What does Lebert try to get Avey to remember?
(a) Her childhood friends.
(b) A secret password.
(c) Some tribal identity.
(d) A drink recipe.

4. Between whom is Avey seated on the boat?
(a) A young husband and wife.
(b) Lebert and his wife.
(c) Two old women.
(d) Two school boys.

5. What type of dances follow the Beg Pardon?
(a) Creole.
(b) Calypso.
(c) Gyspy.
(d) Rhumba.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Avey call her now empty mind?

2. What holiday does Avey recall spending with one of her daughters?

3. What is the name of the ship that would take Avey, as a girl, on the trips to Bear Mountain with her family and friends?

4. Which of the following does Avey dream when she is below deck?

5. What is the name of a dance that Avey remembers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what did Avey live in denial during the 1960s and 1970s regarding her heritage?

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

3. Avey now longs for her husband "Jay" who "died" when Jerome came to the forefront and made them an affluent family. To what holiday situation does Avey compare this longing?

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

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

6. How does Avey meet Lebert Joseph?

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

8. How does Avey compare this boat trip, and the old women sitting beside her, to her childhood days in church?

9. What does Avey reminisce about her father and family trips as she is waiting on the dock?

10. What is revealed about the women on the boat by the way they care for Avey?

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