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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. Mawu feeds Sweet pieces of __________________ dipped in water.
(a) Cornbread.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Bread.
(d) Candy.

2. Drayle starts Nate working ___________________.
(a) In the fields.
(b) On the accounts.
(c) In the house.
(d) With the horses.

3. What do some of the white women do while Philip is chained to a tree?
(a) Throw pieces of bread at him.
(b) Have a picnic and watch him.
(c) Bring him food and water.
(d) Tend to his wounds.

4. Who is Sweet's oldest daughter who has died?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Tootie.
(d) Melissa.

5. How does Fran react when Lizzie tells her that she has drunk a special tea to abort a baby?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She doesn't say anything.
(c) She cries.
(d) She threatens to slap Lizzie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mawu want Glory to "fix" her?

2. How is Sweet buried?

3. In what state does Lizzie live with her master?

4. What song do the women sing at Sweet's burial?

5. What do the slave women at the resort gather for Sweet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different for Lizzie during the last trip to the Tawawa House?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. Why is Sweet's death so bittersweet for the women?

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

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

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