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

2. With which of the following does Song (5) begin?
(a) “The fault of how Samuel Pinchard, the man who would be known by the Negroes on his land as ‘Master,’ became an atrocity…”
(b) “When Aidan Franklin settled his second wife and his many children in the cabin…”
(c) “Yes.”
(d) “Even in a place of sorrow, time passes.”

3. By which of the following is Lydia made pregnant?
(a) Dante.
(b) Tim.
(c) Donald.
(d) Tony.

4. Which of the following clubs does Lydia note having preferred?
(a) Royal Peacock.
(b) Opus.
(c) Cru.
(d) Speakeasy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Nick’s letter to Samuel dated?

2. In what North Carolina city does Ailey live while attending graduate school?

3. In what county do Lydia and Dante wed?

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

5. In which year does Gideon Franklin come to what would become Georgia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Ailey hesitate to focus on the Pinchard family for her work in Whitcomb’s class?

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

6. Why does Samuel hire Holcomb as overseer?

7. What explanation is given in the novel for the hindered growth of many enslaved women and girls?

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

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

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

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