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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 231-276.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the wedding, Josephine has to look away when she gets choked up thinking about three qualities Major shares with his late father. What is NOT one of these qualities?
(a) Coal-black eyes.
(b) Curly red hair.
(c) Burnt orange skin.
(d) Piercing green eyes.

2. Who stays with Eliza throughout each day and night once she becomes pregnant?
(a) Major.
(b) Link.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Josephine.

3. Josephine has "stopped expecting" (175) Eliza and Major by how many weeks after their argument?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

4. How many slaves had their heads "speared on posts dotting the Mississippi River" (122) in association with the Travis plot?
(a) 50.
(b) 20.
(c) 100.
(d) 30.

5. Josephine makes sure that it is what time of day whenever she returns to her own home to get fresh clothes?
(a) Daytime.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Precisely noon.
(d) Dawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who tried to find Josephine's mother after the Civil War, but to no avail?

2. In what style does Gladys wear her waist-length hair?

3. How many months pregnant is Eliza when there is a dispute over a tree?

4. How old is Ava's mother Gladys?

5. What objects does Grandma Martha destroy during her final spell of dementia within the narrative?

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