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

2. What is the content of Avey's dream?
(a) A lecture from her father.
(b) A sermon by a Southern preacher.
(c) A quarrel with a friend.
(d) A heart-to-heart with her mother.

3. What does Avey recall about Jerome's face as he lay in his casket?
(a) She thought he was still handsome.
(b) She wished he had kept the mustache.
(c) She didn't recognize him.
(d) She could not look at him in his casket.

4. 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) What stones the parishoners have pulled over their hearts.
(c) If anyone wants to be baptized today.
(d) If anyone wants to testify.

5. What did Avey do during the discrimination of black people in the 1960s and 1970s?
(a) Lived in denial.
(b) Marched for civil rights.
(c) Paid for civil rights attorneys.
(d) Wrote letters to the President.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the old women do as they help Avey move below deck?

2. Why did Avey's grandson cry on Christmas?

3. What will now become a sacred place for Avey and her family?

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

5. What color is the dress Avey wears for the evening?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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