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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. What does Nettie first notice about the Olinka people?
(a) Their bare chests.
(b) Their welcoming spirit.
(c) Their long dreadlocks.
(d) Their white teeth.

2. How did the reverend and his wife treat Nettie when she first arrived?
(a) They hired her in as a maid.
(b) They ignored her completely.
(c) They welcomed her as a long lost family member.
(d) The made her pay room and board, like a lodger.

3. Who teaches Millie how to drive?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Sofia.
(c) Celie.
(d) The warden.

4. What does Celie place as markers over her birthparent’s graves?
(a) Wooden crosses.
(b) Bouquets of flowers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) An old horseshoe.

5. What is the “big surprise” Shug reveals at Christmas?
(a) Diamond earrings.
(b) A car for Mr.
(c) A pair of pants for Celie.
(d) Her new husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Shug and Grady meet?

2. What vice deeply affects Eleanor Jane in her home?

3. According to the letters, how does Nettie feel being away from Celie?

4. What type of farm do Mary Agnes and Grady run?

5. What is the name of the shop Celie opens in Memphis?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Billy get hurt on the day that Celie visits Sofia at the mayor’s house?

2. Why is Sofia’s mother’s funeral unusual?

3. How does Shug convince Celie not to kill Mr.?

4. How did Nettie come to live in Africa?

5. What is Nettie’s first impression of the Senegalese people she meets during her travels?

6. What does Nettie do her first evening in Olinka?

7. Who is Germaine, and how does Celie feel about him?

8. How do the Olinka people first react to their new missionaries (including Nettie)?

9. How does Pa react when Celie tells him that she knows the truth about her birth parents?

10. What coming-of-age ritual does Tashi partake in, and what is the reaction to her participation?

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