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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes out on the nights of the new moon to look for a hoop snake?
(a) Nina and Crissy.
(b) Crissy and Robert.
(c) Abigail and Nina.
(d) Robert and Abigail.

2. How many children do William and Margaret have?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

3. What did Margaret's family once turned into beads?
(a) Quartz.
(b) Mussel and clamshells.
(c) Shells from nuts.
(d) River mud.

4. After the Korean War, where does John set up his practice?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Madison City.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) New Orleans.

5. Where do the newly married Tollivers honeymoon?
(a) Houston.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Miami.
(d) Bermuda.

6. What is another name for Somerset County?
(a) Plantation Country.
(b) Cotton County.
(c) Robbers' Nation.
(d) Tolliver Nation.

7. In what city does Robert first attend boarding school?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Boston.
(d) Cincinnati.

8. When William shows concern at Margaret getting weak-kneed, she blames it on _____________.
(a) Hunger.
(b) His presence.
(c) The long walk.
(d) Bitter grass.

9. As a child, where does Abigail go stay for almost a year?
(a) Bannisters.
(b) Aunt Annie.
(c) Her father.
(d) Oliver.

10. Who sits on the Carmichael porch to play the banjo and sing the blues?
(a) Grover Kent.
(b) Elfetha Harris.
(c) Jack Tobias.
(d) Roger Ellis.

11. How old is Margaret when she learns the story of her father?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Fifteen.

12. Where is Margaret when she first sees the spirit of her great-grandmother?
(a) By her tomato plants.
(b) On an island in the swamp.
(c) On the porch.
(d) By her cousin's mule.

13. Why is Abigail away from home for almost a year?
(a) Her grandfather and Margaret take Abigail's mother to a tuberculosis sanitarium.
(b) A flood takes away the home, which has to be rebuilt.
(c) Margaret is mourning due to two miscarriages.
(d) Hiding her from her father.

14. As a girl, where does Margaret go on winter mornings?
(a) Swamp.
(b) Stays in bed.
(c) Hollow tree trunk.
(d) By the stove.

15. Who tells Margaret about her father and how her parents met?
(a) A cousin.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Katy moaning in the Book of Margaret?

2. Who mentions that Abigail flounces out of the house?

3. According to Abigail, in what animal is her grandfather most interested?

4. Why does Abigail cry after the birth of her second child?

5. When does Abigail tell her grandfather that she's getting married?

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