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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the narrative means to combine one thing with another so they become whole?
(a) Abolish.
(b) Segregate.
(c) Denigrate.
(d) Integrate.

2. How is the door opened in the room where Tee Bob has locked himself in "The Samson House"?
(a) With a shovel.
(b) With a hammer.
(c) With a key.
(d) With an axe.

3. What decade is it when Jane leaves the Samson Plantation?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1940s.

4. Who is waiting for Mary Agnes at the bus stop in “Robert and Mary”?
(a) Clamp Brown.
(b) Judy Major.
(c) Jimmy Caya.
(d) Tom Joe.

5. What is the name of Samson's wife?
(a) Mary Hodges.
(b) Judy Major.
(c) Mary Agnes.
(d) Amma Dean.

6. What has led to the decline of the Samson Plantation in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?
(a) The leasing of land to the Cajuns.
(b) Samson's suicide.
(c) The disappearance of a black labor force.
(d) The foreclosures of banks.

7. What is the name of the schoolteacher who comes to Samson Plantation in “The LeFarbre Family”?
(a) Madame Gautier.
(b) Mary Agnes LeFabre.
(c) Mary Hodges.
(d) Etienne.

8. Who goes with the sheriff to question Mary Agnes in "The Samson House"?
(a) Clamp Brown.
(b) Albert Cluveau.
(c) Tom Joe.
(d) Jules Raynard.

9. What word from the narrative refers to an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles?
(a) Cajuns.
(b) Indo.
(c) Dago.
(d) Creole.

10. For what is a black girl arrested in Jimmy's plan in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 2)?
(a) Going to a white school.
(b) Going into an all-white store.
(c) Drinking from a white water fountain.
(d) Sitting in the front of a bus.

11. When did Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1955.

12. When does the flood occur that is described in “Of Men and Rivers”?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1959.

13. Which of Samson's sons was born of a black woman on the plantation in “Two Brothers of the South”?
(a) Ned.
(b) Tom Joe.
(c) Tee Bob.
(d) Timmy.

14. Jimmy Aaron is referred to with what title in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?
(a) "The Politician."
(b) "The Cook."
(c) "The Activist."
(d) "The One."

15. Where does Tee Bob return from in “A Flower in Winter”?
(a) New York.
(b) Amarillo.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Baton Rouge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Samson's sons is white in “Two Brothers of the South”?

2. When did the African-American Civil Rights Movement begin?

3. Who is the overseer on Samson's plantation in “Two Brothers of the South”?

4. Who does the white man turn into in Jane's vision from “The Travels of Miss Jane Pittman”?

5. What local woman's family is kicked off the Samson Plantation in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?

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