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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. In which state is the plantation that Denver worked as a teenager?
(a) Texas.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Louisiana.

2. Who encouraged Ron and Denver to become friends?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Chef Jim.
(c) Sister Bettie.
(d) Brother Bill.

3. How did Denver's father die?
(a) He was stabbed to death.
(b) He died of alcohol poisoning.
(c) He was dragged to death behind a horse.
(d) He committed suicide.

4. What type of hardwood trees surrounded the Red River Parish plantation of Denver's youth?
(a) Oak.
(b) Cherry.
(c) Pine.
(d) Pecan.

5. How old was Denver when he was nearly killed by a group of white boys?
(a) 21.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 52.

Short Answer Questions

1. What valuable objects were in Ron's possession on the private jet?

2. What name did Deborah and Ron mistakenly call Denver?

3. Why did Denver fear that something bad would happen to Deborah?

4. During Ron's punishment from the mean teacher, what caused half of the chalk circle to disappear?

5. What did the needy have to sit through in order to receive a free dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why did Ron dress differently from his peers in college?

2. What did Denver think of Deborah Hall the first time he met her?

3. What new mission did Denver feel called to pursue as Deborah lay dying?

4. Explain how Denver went about keeping an all-night prayer vigil for Deborah and tell how Ron reacted to the news that Denver was sleeping during the following day.

5. Why did Denver work the cotton fields and continue to be treated like a slave thirty years after the formal end of slavery?

6. How did Mr. Ballantine treat Denver when he first met him and how did Mr. Ballantine arrive at the mission?

7. How did Denver come to work as a sharecropper and who was responsible for his involvement?

8. With how much money did Denver return from Colorado and what was Ron's reaction?

9. Explain how Ron and Denver became friends.

10. Describe the condition of Hershalee's house and what happened there when Ron and Denver visited it together.

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