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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Macon want to buy and rent to black professionals?
(a) Summer homes
(b) Clothing
(c) Cars
(d) Boats

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

3. Where is the person in #2 trying to fly?
(a) New York
(b) Lake Superior
(c) Chicago
(d) Lake Erie

4. What is the name of the organization of which Guitar is a part?
(a) The Seven Days
(b) The Blacks Over the Whites
(c) The Weekly Warriors
(d) The Seven Men

5. Who is the first woman to deliver a 'colored baby' at Mercy Hospital?
(a) Pilate
(b) Ruth Foster
(c) Reba
(d) Hagar

6. Who is shocked about the news that Hagar wants to kill Milkman?
(a) Macon
(b) Reba
(c) Pilate
(d) Ruth

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

8. What is the date at the beginning of this story?
(a) March 2, 1931
(b) February 13, 1931
(c) December 23, 1931
(d) February 18, 1931

9. What is Hagar's relationship to Milkman?
(a) Brother
(b) Aunt
(c) Friend
(d) Cousin

10. Who has Milkman been sleeping with for some time?
(a) Pilate
(b) Reba
(c) Hagar
(d) Susan

11. What is the name of the midwife who delivers Macon and Pilate?
(a) Circe
(b) Sing
(c) Rulathia
(d) Reba

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

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

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

15. Which of these names does not belong in the Dead family?
(a) Magdalene
(b) First Corinthians
(c) Ruth
(d) Reba

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Guitar drinking?

2. Who is the one person for whom Milkman does not buy a Christmas present?

3. What does Macon do to keep Milkman out of trouble?

4. Macon discovers Ruth naked in the bed next to her father's dead body. What is she doing?

5. What does Macon Dead do for work?

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