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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 the benefit of Avey's hotel balcony meltdown?
(a) She can now ask her daughters for forgiveness.
(b) She is finally free of her mother.
(c) She can now forgive her husband.
(d) She now has a focus for her anger.

2. How can Rosalie and Lebert tell which tribe Avey belongs to?
(a) By the shape of her nose.
(b) By her accent.
(c) By the way she dances.
(d) By the size of her feet.

3. For whom was Marion always been an advocate?
(a) Poor people.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Black people.
(d) Homeless people.

4. What type of ceremony does Avey recall filming in Ghana?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A ceremony to feed the gods.
(c) A rite of passage.
(d) A christening.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How do the women next to Avey know she is really sick?

4. What is the location of Avey's dream prior to waking?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the preacher say was the purpose of the sermon about the risen Christ?

4. Describe how Avey's massage becomes almost like a sacred ritual in renewing her in body and spirit.

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

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

7. What is the sermon that Avey recalls hearing as a little girl?

8. Describe Avey's behavior on the beach.

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

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

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