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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Macon explain why he doesn't want Milkman to visit his aunt?
(a) No
(b) Sort of
(c) Yes, and he beats him as punishment
(d) Yes

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

3. What does Macon reveal about Ruth's relationship with her father?
(a) She killed him
(b) It was abusive
(c) It was not very close
(d) It seemed to be incestuous

4. What does Guitar think all white people are? ______ waiting to happen.
(a) Racists
(b) Murderers
(c) Lynchers
(d) Thieves

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

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

7. Who scares Macon away from the cave and hinders him from leaving with the item in #82?
(a) A group of hunters
(b) Pilate
(c) Circe
(d) Police

8. Who is the person that comes up with the nickname Milkman?
(a) George
(b) Macon
(c) Freddie
(d) Solomon

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

10. Who is Milkman's best friend?
(a) Macon
(b) Sweets
(c) Guitar Bains
(d) Lena

11. What does Milkman send to Hagar?
(a) Money and a letter
(b) A new nightgown
(c) A pair of fancy shoes
(d) A ring

12. Who does Milkman's best friend goad Milkman into visiting?
(a) Ruth
(b) Reba
(c) Pilate
(d) Judy

13. Who walks into the rental office as Milkman is finishing up work?
(a) Macon
(b) Freddie
(c) Guitar
(d) Hagar

14. Where do Macon and Pilate decide to sleep?
(a) In the field
(b) Under a rock formation
(c) In the attic
(d) In a cave

15. Who picks up a rock and kills the white man where Macon and Pilate decide to sleep?
(a) Circe
(b) Macon
(c) Ruth
(d) Pilate

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Milkman's legs is shorter than the other?

2. Where is the green bag hanging?

3. Who is the drunk and crazy tenant that waves around a shotgun and a wad of cash?

4. What must Milkman promise in order to find out more from Guitar?

5. Who is the first woman to deliver a 'colored baby' at Mercy Hospital?

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