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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 what year is Nick’s letter to Samuel dated?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1858.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1848.

2. Whom of the following sells Leena to Samuel?
(a) Lancaster.
(b) Hepzibah.
(c) Hezekiah.
(d) Jotham.

3. In what year does Samuel win a land lottery in Georgia?
(a) 1705.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1755.

4. Which of the following is quoted at the beginning of X?
(a) “The Individual and Social Conscience.”
(b) “The Talented Tenth.”
(c) “Of Our Spiritual Strivings.”
(d) “Evolution of the Negro.”

5. What is the listed purchase price for Agayuh?
(a) $450.
(b) $550.
(c) $400.
(d) $500.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is cultivated on Ezekiel’s plantation?

2. Who of the following does Dante point out as an example to Lydia?

3. Whom of the following signs the Second Treaty of Indian Springs in the novel?

4. Which of the following restaurants does Ailey frequent while at graduate school?

5. Whom of the following is the first Ailey interviews for her dissertation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What occasions the death of Samuel’s father?

2. How is Ailey enrolled as Oludara’s research assistant?

3. Explicate the significance of the label “left-handed cabin.”

4. How does Coco become aware of Ailey’s duplicity?

5. What advice does Oludara offer Ailey about selecting an advisor for her doctoral program?

6. How does Lady explain the departure of her parents to her children?

7. How does Whitcomb explain his pressing Ailey harder than other students?

8. What bias does Ailey note is at work among the interviewers for the Federal Writers’ Project?

9. For what reason is Lonny Maxwell dismissed from teaching?

10. What is the last thing Lydia sees before dying?

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