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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. Avey says that her mind is now as empty as ____________________.
(a) A cave.
(b) Her emptied purse.
(c) A theme park at midnight.
(d) Bloomingdale's on Christmas.

2. What question does the preacher ask after he finishes the story of Christ rising from the dead?
(a) Who will see Christ at the end of his life?
(b) If anyone wants to testify.
(c) What stones the parishoners have pulled over their hearts.
(d) If anyone wants to be baptized today.

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

4. Why did Avey's grandson cry on Christmas?
(a) He didn't want the day to be over.
(b) He broke his truck.
(c) He didn't get the gift he most wanted.
(d) He got hit in they eye while bouncing a new basketball.

5. What does Avey dream of while below deck on the ship?
(a) The ships that brought the slaves to America.
(b) Her mother's funeral.
(c) Her daughter's birthday party.
(d) Her wedding to Jay.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Avey doing at the beginning of Chapter 4?

3. To which tribe do Rosalie and Lebert tell Avey that she must belong?

4. What does Lebert tell Avey that the annual island excursion is all about?

5. What startles Avey awake?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Avey's experience at the Beg Pardon.

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

3. How does the present day Avey mirror what the little girl Avey was experiencing in the dream?

4. How does Avey meet Lebert Joseph?

5. In whose care had Avey been during the night of the boat trip to the island?

6. How does Avey know she has come back to herself?

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

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

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

10. Who is Rosalie Parvay and how does Avey meet her?

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