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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pilate do for a living?
(a) Is a midwife
(b) Works as a maid
(c) Makes and sells wine
(d) Cooks

2. Who is one of the members of this organization that eventually cannot not take it?
(a) Macon
(b) Circe
(c) Robert Smith
(d) Porter

3. Who is trying to fly at the start of the novel?
(a) Robert Smith
(b) Milkman
(c) Solomon
(d) Macon

4. Where does Macon say he will meet later with Milkman?
(a) In the car
(b) At a park
(c) At the bank
(d) At the barbershop

5. Who is the drunk and crazy tenant that waves around a shotgun and a wad of cash?
(a) Robert
(b) Porter
(c) Milkman
(d) Guitar

6. Who does Pilate tell Ruth she believes will save Milkman's life one day?
(a) A baby
(b) A man
(c) A woman
(d) A reverend

7. What does Milkman mention that causes Macon to become excited?
(a) A city
(b) A green sack
(c) A car
(d) A book

8. Where does the family take its weekly drive?
(a) Along the shore of Lake Superior
(b) In the woods
(c) They don't take the drive at all
(d) Through town

9. What did Pilate use to protect Ruth and her unborn son?
(a) Songs
(b) Poultices
(c) Wine
(d) Voodoo

10. What is the name of the baby delivered in #6?
(a) Robert
(b) George
(c) Macon
(d) Jeffrey

11. Where does Empire State like to hang out?
(a) Pilate's
(b) Hagar's
(c) The railroad tracks
(d) The two Tommys' barbershop

12. Which of Milkman's legs is shorter than the other?
(a) It's his left arm that is shorter, not his leg.
(b) Right
(c) Left
(d) Neither is shorter

13. Where does Milkman go to hide from Hagar?
(a) Guitar's
(b) Macon's
(c) Shalimar
(d) The rental office

14. The purpose of Guitar's organization is to kill _______ white person(s) for each black person that is killed at the hands of a white person
(a) Ten
(b) Two
(c) Five
(d) One

15. Why does Milkman do things to be unlike his father?
(a) Because he wants to irritate Macon
(b) Guitar tells him to
(c) No real reason
(d) So he can have fun

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Guitar and Milkman go to get a drink?

2. Which of these women does not sing in the group when Milkman visits?

3. What does Guitar think all white people are? ______ waiting to happen.

4. Who is Milkman's best friend?

5. Where is the person in #2 trying to fly?

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