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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following fruits does Samuel favor?
(a) Peaches.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Apples.
(d) Plums.

2. In which of the following does Claire buy a Chanel suit?
(a) Paris.
(b) Milan.
(c) London.
(d) Madrid.

3. A poster of whom of the following graces Ailey’s dorm room?
(a) Sidney Portier.
(b) Wesley Snipes.
(c) Cuba Gooding, Jr.
(d) Denzel Washington.

4. Into which of the following colleges does Chris enroll?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Rutgers.
(c) Rowan.
(d) Montclair.

5. To which of the following does Nila compare Dylan?
(a) A catfish.
(b) A gar.
(c) A bass.
(d) A sturgeon.

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

7. Which of the following languages does Kiné’s mother speak?
(a) Banyum.
(b) Fula.
(c) Wolof.
(d) Kasanga.

8. 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.”

9. To which of the following colleges does Lydia claim to transfer?
(a) Lane.
(b) Benedict.
(c) Spelman.
(d) Clinton.

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

11. With which of the following does Song (4) begin?
(a) “Even in a place of sorrow, time passes.”
(b) “When Aidan Franklin settled his second wife and his many children in the cabin…”
(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.”

12. Which of the following makes of car does Belle drive?
(a) BMW.
(b) Volvo.
(c) Audi.
(d) Lexus.

13. Who is the first Belle calls after Geoffrey dies?
(a) Root.
(b) Ailey.
(c) Coco.
(d) Rose.

14. At which university does Claire report having met her husband?
(a) Medina.
(b) Mecca.
(c) Rome.
(d) Salem.

15. To which of the following does Aggie liken Samuel?
(a) Impundulu.
(b) Ninki Nanka.
(c) Grootslang.
(d) Mokele Mbembe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is closest to the meaning of “griot,” as used in the novel?

2. Which of the following makes of car does Chris drive?

3. Which of the following is quoted at the beginning of V?

4. Which of the following works is quoted at the beginning of I?

5. At which of the following does Root earn his doctorate?

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