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1:  The book's epigraph emphasizes the impact of personal choice and responsibility by suggesting which of the following?

a. Black mothers should take a greater role in their children's upbringing.

b. Black children should never quit school if they expect to succeed.

c. Strong father figures are integral to the survival of black families and the black race.

d. A black man's willingness to serve in the military makes a positive statement to their families.
2:  Throughout the novel, characters tell their own stories and the community reacts with a collective voice, which can be called

a. The principle of supply and demand

b. A call-and-response pattern

c. Narrative echoing

d. American oral tradition
3:  Which of the following characters is not mentioned in Song of Solomon?

a. The gold-toothed man

b. The dead doctor's daughter

c. The singing woman

d. The airborne African
4:  Playing a key role in the novel, color symbolism is evident in all but which of the following?

a. The red rose petals, the white snow, and Mr. Smith's blue silk wings

b. Guitar Bains's blood-red shoes and socks

c. Pilate's navy blue cap and Ruth's gray coat

d. The white linen covering Ruth's mahogany table
5:  Macon Dead Jr. views the family car as

a. A means of cheap transportation

b. A symbol of success

c. An unreliable scrapheap

d. A way to get his family together all in one place
6:  Which of the following scenes does not illustrate Milkman's egotistical approach to life and indifferent attitude?

a. His decision to end his relationship with Hagar

b. His vision of his mother being suffocated by tulips

c. His reaction to Freddie's "white bull" story

d. The time he urinated on his sister Lena
7:  How does Milkman react to Hagar's threats to kill him?

a. He resigns himself to let her kill him if she wants to and can.

b. He runs away and hides in the Packard trunk until he knows that she's gone.

c. He plots to rekindle the relationship only to avoid her murderous advances.

d. He seeks out a gang member who'll commit murder for hire.
8:  Milkman's reference to a white robe can be interpreted as

a. a choir member's smock.

b. a Klansman's dress.

c. the robe of an angel who's fallen from grace.

d. his fantasy of wearing fine threads to a formal dance.
9:  Macon's attitude toward the supernatural connects him to

a. an unwelcome underworld cult.

b. First Corinthians Dead, his youngest daughter.

c. the 21 children Milkman's great-grandfather left behind when he flew back to Africa.

d. his African ancestors, who believed their ghosts walked the earth.
10:  Who delivers Milkman from his spiritually bereft existence?

a. Guitar Bains

b. The singing woman

c. Hagar

d. The curiously dressed insurance man at Mercy Hospital
11:  Pilate was born without which of the following?

a. A navel

b. The help of a midwife

c. The skin color of molten chocolate like other members of her family

d. A last name
12:  Who said the following: "You not going to have no private coach and four red velvet chairs that swivel around in one place whenever you want ‘em to."

a. Hospital Tommy

b. Ruth Foster Dead

c. Railroad Tommy

d. Feather, owner of a Southside hangout
13:  Who said the following: "All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly."

a. Guitar

b. Milkman

c. Mr. Robert Smith

d. Empire State
14:  Who said the following: "Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips?"

a. The Reverend

b. Milkman

c. Hagar

d. Pilate


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