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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. What seemed to continually test Sue's faith?
(a) The discrimination towards black people.
(b) Her sons' behavior.
(c) The pain in her body.
(d) Her husband's illness.

2. What did Sue's mother instill in her?
(a) A strong faith in Jesus.
(b) A hatred of whites.
(c) A hard work ethic.
(d) A desire to find a good husband.

3. For whom does the cold and rain make Sue long?
(a) Her dead husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Sug.

4. What does Sue do when she quits ironing?
(a) Has a bottle of beer.
(b) Sews Johnny-Boy's jacket.
(c) Fixes Johnny-Boy's dinner.
(d) Goes to bed.

5. What did Sue see as taking precedence over her life?
(a) White people's laws.
(b) Taking care of her sons.
(c) Staying alive.
(d) Winnning the lottery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sue do after Johnny-Boy leaves?

2. What does Johnny-Boy try to give his mother after dinner?

3. How does Sue feel about Reva?

4. What does Sue sense that night about her son, Johnny-Boy?

5. How did Sue feel about people who tried to destroy the Party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the sheriff tell Sue and how does she respond?

2. What do the men do after Sue shoots her gun and how does she feel in the end?

3. How does Sue see Booker when she comes to after the sheriff's beating?

4. What is the weather like in the beginning of this story and what is Sue thinking about as she looks out the window?

5. What happens as Sue rises to her feet?

6. How did life feel to Sue after Sug was arrested?

7. Who comes into the house and what does she say?

8. How does Johnny-Boy feel about his mother pushing him?

9. What does the sheriff say to Sue as they come up to him?

10. What does Sue finally decide to do?

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