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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 accompanies Lizzie and Drayle when they return to the Tawawa House resort the next Summer?
(a) Addie.
(b) Nate.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Fran.

2. How is Sweet buried?
(a) Her body is placed in a pine casket.
(b) Her body is cremated.
(c) Her body is placed in the river.
(d) Her body is placed directly in the ground.

3. Why has Mawu not traveled on to Canada?
(a) She is waiting for information about the next stop in the Underground Railroad.
(b) She needs more money.
(c) She is waiting for Lizzie to escape too.
(d) She is afraid.

4. Which of the slave women is afraid to go swimming?
(a) Lizzie.
(b) Sweet.
(c) Reenie.
(d) Mawu.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Drayle want to send to the institution in #174?

2. What rumor does Mawu tell the women about the Tawawa House?

3. What does Fran want to do about Nate and Rabbit?

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

5. What craft did Big Mama do and eventually lost her eyes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Reenie's behavior show that her life has changed dramatically for the worse in the time since she saw the other women last Summer?

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

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

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

5. Why does religion play such a big part in the lives and deaths of the slaves?

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

7. Why does Lizzie think that Drayle freed Philip for her sake?

8. What is it about Mawu's personality that allows her to ask Lizzie if Drayle is "God to you"?

9. How does the author address the topics of slave catchers and abolitionists?

10. How does Mawu show that she is intent on running away very soon?

(see the answer keys)

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