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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philip offer to do for Lizzie when he meets her?

2. What do the women notice about Reenie when they pull her from the water?

3. Who douses Philip with water as he waters plants with a hose?

4. What happens to Lizzie on the first summer trip she takes on the steamboat?

5. Fran tells Lizzie that she ______________ her, and never hated her.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Drayle's decision to send Nate to school in Ohio a bittersweet one for Lizzie?

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

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

6. 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?

7. Why is Lizzie reminded of watching a dog die while lying in the sun after Philip is punished by Drayle?

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

9. Describe how the old man who was a freed slave traveling on the train to Ohio signifies the importance of freedom regardless of age?

10. Why has Mawu waited a year in the cabin in the woods after running away from her master?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Dolen Perkins-Valdez' use of regionalism in the book. Cite examples of at least two different instances of regionalism and explain why the author uses them where she does.

Essay Topic 2

What is the greatest lesson Lizzie learns from Mawu? Is it that important lessons are also painful ones? What will Lizzie always recall about her experiences during her time with Mawu?

Essay Topic 3

Create a brief character study of Lizzie. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are her dreams and fears? What is most valuable to her in her world?

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