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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom of the following does Ailey compare Scooter?
(a) Sidney Portier.
(b) Cuba Gooding, Jr.
(c) Denzel Washington.
(d) Wesley Snipes.

2. Which of the following is quoted at the beginning of VIII?
(a) Their Eyes Were Watching God.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Darkwater.
(d) The Souls of Black Folk.

3. Which of the following does Rebecca note is her research topic?
(a) Peregrination.
(b) Mammies.
(c) Obstetrics.
(d) Crop rotation.

4. Which of the following describes the voice of Lydia’s husband, Dante?
(a) Bass.
(b) Contrabass.
(c) Tenor.
(d) Baritone.

5. Which of the following is cultivated on Ezekiel’s plantation?
(a) Barley.
(b) Rice.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Corn.

6. How long is the final paper Ailey must write for Whitcomb’s class?
(a) 15 pages.
(b) 20 pages.
(c) 25 pages.
(d) 30 pages.

7. For what crime is Gideon transported to what would become Georgia?
(a) Murder.
(b) Poaching.
(c) Slander.
(d) Embezzlement.

8. From which tribe does Holcomb hail?
(a) Creek.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Osage.
(d) Apache.

9. How many monographs does Whitcomb have?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

10. Ailey reads an article by whom?
(a) QK Philander Doesticks.
(b) JK Phillippius Bucktwig.
(c) JQ Thelonious Johnson.
(d) Bob Smith.

11. Which of the following is quoted at the beginning of VII?
(a) “Liberia, the League, and the United States.”
(b) “The Study of the Negro Problems.”
(c) “Black Africa Tomorrow.”
(d) “Of the Sorrow Songs.”

12. With which of the following does Song (5) begin?
(a) “Even in a place of sorrow, time passes.”
(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) “When Aidan Franklin settled his second wife and his many children in the cabin…”
(d) “Yes.”

13. Which of the following classes does Whitcomb teach?
(a) Introduction to Graduate Work in US History.
(b) The Peculiar Institution in US History.
(c) The Peculiar Institution in the Archives.
(d) Introduction to Graduate Work in the Archives.

14. In what year are the Pinchard family papers donated to the archive in which Ailey works?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1932.

15. Which of the following is quoted at the beginning of IX?
(a) “Of Our Spiritual Strivings.”
(b) “The Talented Tenth.”
(c) “Evolution of the Negro.”
(d) “The Black Belt.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is emphatically off of the menu at the restaurant Velma runs?

2. What is the name of the archive librarian at Ailey’s graduate school?

3. In what year does Samuel win a land lottery in Georgia?

4. Which of the following conflicts sees the Creek divided among themselves?

5. For which of the following prizes and awards had Whitcomb been a finalist?

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