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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. Which of the following colleges does Lydia note Dante attends?
(a) Morehouse.
(b) Tougaloo.
(c) Fisk.
(d) Wiley.
2. With which of the following does the novel begin?
(a) “Twenty years had passed, and a new century had begun.”
(b) “We are the earth, the land.”
(c) “Back when her name had been ‘Beauty,’ Aggie’s grandmother had told her men were stronger than women.”
(d) “We know of those taken from the place called Africa.”
3. Which artist’s work is on display in Belle’s home?
(a) Jackson Pollock.
(b) Andy Warhol.
(c) Norman Rockwell.
(d) Bob Ross.
4. What does Ailey’s father prescribe for her menstrual cramps?
(a) Codeine.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) Hydrocodone.
(d) Ibuprofen.
5. In which of the following does Ailey major as an undergraduate?
(a) Engineering.
(b) French.
(c) Premed.
(d) History.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where do Diane’s parents live?
2. As which of the following does the novel gloss the name Boukie?
3. To whom of the following does Belle compare Zulu?
4. At which of the following schools does Coco study?
5. Which of the following works is quoted at the beginning of III?
Short Essay Questions
1. On what is Ailey’s college savings spent, rather than her own collegiate study?
2. What occasions Geoffrey’s holiday outburst at his mother?
3. What is the significance of the Peach Butt?
4. What does Ailey note attracted Belle to the house in which she raised her children?
5. How does Root meet his wife?
6. Why does Ailey regard the teachers at her second high school as “serious pushovers” (96)?
7. What materials is Ailey expected to bring to college?
8. Throughout the book, a number of women use botanical contraceptives. What are those discussed earliest in the novel?
9. How is Ailey supposedly rebuked for not accepting punishment alongside Boukie and Baybay?
10. What prompts Ailey to reconcile with Chris Tate instead of with David James?
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