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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Song (2) and II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following shows do Ailey and Lydia watch together?
(a) Dynasty.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Star Trek: The Next Generation.
(d) One Life to Live.

2. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “Back when her name had been ‘Beauty,’ Aggie’s grandmother had told her men were stronger than women.”
(b) “We are the earth, the land.”
(c) “We know of those taken from the place called Africa.”
(d) “Twenty years had passed, and a new century had begun.”

3. To whom of the following is the novel dedicated?
(a) Robin Small McCarthy.
(b) Wanda Sykes.
(c) Trellie Lee James Jeffers.
(d) Bessie Fifer.

4. With which of the following does Song (2) begin?
(a) “Twenty years had passed, and a new century had begun.”
(b) “The fault of how Samuel Pinchard, the man who would be known by the Negroes on his land as ‘Master,’ became an atrocity…”
(c) “We know of those taken from the place called Africa.”
(d) “Back when her name had been ‘Beauty,’ Aggie’s grandmother had told her men were stronger than women.”

5. In what month does Belle bring Lydia back from Georgia?
(a) May.
(b) April.
(c) June.
(d) March.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Ailey’s first high school?

2. What is the name of Ailey’s second high school?

3. What is the name of the mortician in Chicasetta?

4. Where does Claire spend her summers?

5. By what name does Ailey call her paternal grandfather?

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