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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following types of imagery dominates the Prologue?
(a) City streets and tall buildings.
(b) Farms and countrysides.
(c) Fish, flora, and sunsets.
(d) Flowers, landscapes, and horizons.

2. How does Luke feel about New York City?
(a) He disagrees with Tom that urban life is more interesting than Southern gallantry.
(b) He is fascinated by the feminists he encounters in New York.
(c) He feels that this sophisticated metropolis is the perfect place for his sister.
(d) He feels that this evil city is no place for his little sister.

3. What news do Tom and his family discover in Chapter One?
(a) Tom's father recently passed away.
(b) Tom's brother decided to move back home.
(c) Savannah has tried to commit suicide again.
(d) Lila has finally remarried.

4. Which of the following is NOT true about the traumatic memory from the Wingo childhood?
(a) Lila insists it never happened.
(b) Tom and Luke agree never to speak about it.
(c) Savannah seems to be unaffected by the experience.
(d) Tom and Luke remember every detail of what happened that day.

5. What does Tom recall that his father did not allow?
(a) He did not permit failure at school.
(b) He did not permit disrepect.
(c) He did not permit crimes against nature.
(d) He did not permit socializing with other races.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Tom and Luke awakened in the middle of the night while visiting Savannah in New York in Chapter Two?

2. During which decade does Tom begin recalling the story of his family?

3. What does Tom read in the waiting room of Dr. Lowenstein's office?

4. Where do Tom and Dr. Lowenstein go the night after their initial meeting?

5. What does Tom promise to tell Dr. Lowenstein during dinner?

(see the answer key)

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