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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 does Rosalie do for Avey?
(a) Makes her some tea.
(b) Loans her some clothes.
(c) Drives her into town.
(d) Gives her a sponge bath.

2. Avey wonders if Jay had really died on the night of their big fight and ____________ had been masquerading in his body all those years since.
(a) Jerome.
(b) The devil.
(c) Jay.
(d) Jay's best friend.

3. What do the old women do as they help Avey move below deck?
(a) Call for help.
(b) Cover her with their shawls.
(c) Put a blanket over her head.
(d) Hold her up as best they can.

4. What does Avey recall envisioning binding the group members of her girlhood trips?
(a) A silky scarf.
(b) A red ribbon.
(c) A silver thread.
(d) A rough rope.

5. What holiday does Avey recall spending with one of her daughters?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Fourth of July.
(d) Thanksgiving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old women do when Avey begins to vomit?

2. What is the part of the island excursion where people ask forgiveness from the Old Parents?

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. What does Avey think is the cause of her husband's death?

5. Avey recalls that her grandson ___________ on Christmas Day.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the topic the preacher engages in with the congregation causing such a stir that little Avey wants to be sick?

7. Describe Avey's behavior on the beach.

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

9. What was occurring during all those years that Avey was living in denial about her true self?

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

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