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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which town is the Peach Butt?
(a) Macedonia.
(b) Blacksburg.
(c) Valley Falls.
(d) Gaffney.

2. Into which college class is Ailey accepted?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1994.

3. In what year is Root offered a job at Routledge?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1940.

4. Which of the following is the first friend Ailey makes in high school?
(a) Roz.
(b) Antoinette.
(c) Keisha.
(d) Cecily.

5. At which of the following did Root teach?
(a) Spelman College.
(b) Langston University.
(c) Wiley College.
(d) Lincoln University.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which of the following did Belle teach?

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

3. Which of the following colleges does Lydia note Dante attends?

4. In what month does Tut come to Wood Place?

5. Whom of the following does Kiné love?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ailey dislike spending summers in the City?

2. On what is Ailey’s college savings spent, rather than her own collegiate study?

3. Why do Diane and her husband separate?

4. Throughout the book, a number of women use botanical contraceptives. What are those discussed earliest in the novel?

5. Why does Ailey regard the teachers at her second high school as “serious pushovers” (96)?

6. Summarize the story Helen tells Aggie about menstruation.

7. What materials is Ailey expected to bring to college?

8. How is Ailey supposedly rebuked for not accepting punishment alongside Boukie and Baybay?

9. What is the excuse Big Thom gives for enrolling Root at Routledge?

10. For what reason do the women of Belle’s hometown not blame men for adultery?

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