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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the boat that will take Avey to Carriacou?

2. What does Avey reply when asked for her name?

3. Which of the following does Avey do when she has a meltdown on the hotel room balcony?

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

5. What medicine does Lebert think Avey desperately needs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Avey doing in Chapter 4 at the same time she was supposed to be flying back to America?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief character study of Great Aunt Cuney. What did she look like? What were her positive personality traits? What were some of her negative characteristics? What were her hopes and fears? What motivated her during her lifetime?

Essay Topic 2

The author uses more than one iteration on the theme of hope. Identify at least two themes about hope in the book. Then cite an example to support each theme you name.

Essay Topic 3

Praisesong for the Widow is a classic story of renewal and rebirth. What does that classification entail? Why does this novel fit into this category? Explain.

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