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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Song (5), VII, and VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Ailey’s first high school?
(a) Tivy.
(b) Braithwaite.
(c) Erasmus.
(d) Toomer.

2. Whom of the following does Ailey note is her favorite author?
(a) Octavia Butler.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) Zora Neale Hurston.
(d) Alice Walker.

3. Whom of the following is Ailey’s high school history teacher?
(a) Mun.
(b) Won.
(c) Yang.
(d) Hwan.

4. From which of the following is the novel’s epigraph taken?
(a) “Of the Sorrow Songs.”
(b) “The Study of the Negro Problems.”
(c) “Liberia, the League, and the United States.”
(d) “Black Africa Tomorrow.”

5. With which of the following does Song (4) begin?
(a) “When Aidan Franklin settled his second wife and his many children in the cabin…”
(b) “Even in a place of sorrow, time passes.”
(c) “The fault of how Samuel Pinchard, the man who would be known by the Negroes on his land as ‘Master,’ became an atrocity…”
(d) “Back when her name had been ‘Beauty,’ Aggie’s grandmother had told her men were stronger than women.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following works is quoted at the beginning of III?

2. Which of the following is cultivated on Ezekiel’s plantation?

3. What is Dante’s middle name?

4. Into which of the following colleges does Chris enroll?

5. In what month does Belle leave for Georgia to attend to Lydia?

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