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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 175-230.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who tried to find Josephine's mother after the Civil War, but to no avail?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Marcia.
(c) Mabel.
(d) Link.

2. Which character does Ava credit with snapping her out of her depression after the breakup of her marriage to Byron?
(a) Byron.
(b) Gladys.
(c) Senait.
(d) Grandma Martha.

3. What topic does Gladys discuss that makes Ava feel anxious?
(a) Politics.
(b) Sex.
(c) Mortality.
(d) Religion.

4. The narrator reveals that Josephine began her life as a what?
(a) A serf.
(b) A sharecropper.
(c) A thief.
(d) A slave.

5. Josephine recalls ensuring that her son Major finished which grade in school?
(a) 4th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 6th.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what room does Ava find Grandma Martha crouched on the floor, rubbing her neck?

2. Josephine thinks to herself in 1924, "Isaiah would be so proud of all that had come from those first" how many "acres" (176)?

3. Who tells Major that he ought not to "let a man treat you like a dog too many times," lest "you start to feel like one" (211)?

4. What is the name of Eliza's "hotheaded" (26) brother?

5. In what location of Glady's house do Ava and Gladys talk before the visit comes to an end?

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