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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. Who is the former owner of the Pin Oak Plantation?
(a) Henri.
(b) Charlemae.
(c) Amos McAvoy.
(d) Harper McAvoy.
2. What is the setting of the story "Justice"?
(a) Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.
(b) Leake County, Mississippi.
(c) Hinds County, Mississippi.
(d) Yazoo County, Mississippi.
3. Whose mother died the day he was born in "The Legend of Pin Oak"?
(a) Amos'.
(b) Charlemae's.
(c) Henri's
(d) Harper's.
4. Who is a local black veterinarian in "Justice"?
(a) Hoop Granger.
(b) Alvin Tinsley.
(c) Riley Granger.
(d) Riley Holt.
5. Henri's mother was what in "The Legend of Pin Oak"?
(a) A freed slave.
(b) A white woman.
(c) Native American.
(d) A plantation owner.
Short Answer Questions
1. "We Organized" is based on the oral histories documented in the Slave Narratives from when?
2. Who was Harper's father in "The Legend of Pin Oak"?
3. Who researches the story of Henri several decades after his death in "The Legend of Pin Oak"?
4. Esau warns his father that the men from whom he borrowed money intend to do what in "The Sight"?
5. What does Esau's mother believe Esau should do with his psychic abilities in "The Sight"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when the police question Alvin in "Justice"?
2. What ritual do the slaves perform in "We Organized"?
3. What is the "veil" in reference to in the story "The Sight"?
4. What does the slave master do in the ending of "We Organized"? Why?
5. How does Esau injure himself in "The Sight"? Does he reach his family in time?
6. How is the slave master described in "We Organized"? What does he do to cause the slaves to rise against him?
7. Who researches the story of Henri in "The Legend of Pin Oak" years later? What does she find?
8. What happens on Esau's birthday as an adult in "The Sight"?
9. How is Lester Simmons described in "The 11:59"?
10. Why does Harper attempt to sell Henri in "The Legend of Pin Oak"? Why doesn't he?
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