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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 month does Ailey make her classroom presentation for Whitcomb?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) September.
(d) November.

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

3. Whom of the following is assigned to chaperone Gloria?
(a) Cathy.
(b) Janet.
(c) Susan.
(d) Rebecca.

4. Who of the following does Dante point out as an example to Lydia?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Lucas.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Matthias.

5. What is the title of the public lecture Ailey is obliged to attend?
(a) “Race Relations during the Cotton Boll Weevil Plague in Alabama.”
(b) “Repercussions of the Cotton Gin in North Carolina.”
(c) “Race Relations during the Cotton Boll Weevil Plague in Mississippi.”
(d) “Race Relations during the Peach Tree Plague in Georgia.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Oludara’s initial offer of pay to Ailey?

3. Whom of the following sells Leena to Samuel?

4. Which of the following is quoted at the beginning of XI?

5. Which of the following describes the voice of Lydia’s uncle, Huck?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rebecca regard Ailey’s presence in their common graduate program?

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

3. To what labor is Gideon put after being transported to what would become Georgia?

4. Why does Root note having avoided reading the Pinchard family papers?

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

6. How does Lydia dissuade Dante’s uncle from inserting himself into their nuptials?

7. What does Ailey note having taken for granted in Chicasetta and at Routledge?

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

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

10. Why do the women enslaved at Wood Place hesitate to tend to Nick?

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