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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. Who does Mawu credit for Philip's good luck in being sold to the barber?
(a) Drayle.
(b) Reenie.
(c) George.
(d) Lizzie.

2. What is Sweet doing when the slave women go to her cabin?
(a) She is naked and lying on her bed.
(b) She is reading poems.
(c) She is in the fetal position on the floor.
(d) She is cooking.

3. What has Drayle not told Fran?
(a) He is thinking of selling Rabbit.
(b) He wants to divorce her.
(c) Lizzie is pregnant again.
(d) He is sending Nate to school in Ohio.

4. What song do the women sing at Sweet's burial?
(a) Mary Had a Baby.
(b) Amazing Grace.
(c) The Old Rugged Cross.
(d) How Great Thou Art.

5. What does a black child place on the barbecue fire?
(a) A can of beans.
(b) Some peaches.
(c) A fish.
(d) A chicken.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the cook at the Tawawa House who befriends Lizzie?

2. Why does Lizzie not trust the porter on the train?

3. What does Lizzie do when Drayle refuses to answer her request?

4. What is the name of the steamship on which Drayle, Philip and Lizzie travel?

5. Mawu had told Lizzie that Mawu was named after whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What spiritual connection does Mawu feel for Lizzie?

2. How has Lizzie romanticized her position in the Drayle household throughout the novel?

3. What is the ultimate decision Lizzie makes regarding her pregnancy and her ultimate goal?

4. What reasons do the other slaveholders give to Drayle for why he should free Philip?

5. Does the author bring closure to Lizzie's story at the end of the novel?

6. What is Reenie's position on aging and freedom?

7. How does the absence of Sweet, Reenie and Mawu alter Lizzie's feelings about Drayle?

8. What is Reenie's position on the survivor spirit in each slave?

9. What does Fran's presence at the Tawawa House mean for Lizzie?

10. Why does Sweet's master behave so cavalierly at her death?

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