Bright and Morning Star Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 132 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Bright and Morning Star Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 132 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Sue feel about Johnny-Boy after dinner?

2. Who are the people in Sue's house?

3. What does she do when the sheriff ask her the question from question #74?

4. What does Sue say when the Sheriff ask where Johnny-Boy is?

5. What is one of the most consistent situations we read about in Sue's life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Reva tell Sue?

2. What is Sue told when she said she'd come for Johnny-Boy's body? How does she respond?

3. What does the sheriff do when Sue doesn't respond to his second request?

4. What does Booker tell Sue as she struggles to her feet?

5. What does the sheriff ask her about the meeting and what does he threaten?

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

7. What does Booker do when Sue recognizes him?

8. What happens to Sue first in the kitchen when she confronts who is in her house?

9. What does the sheriff ask Sue and what is her reply? What does the sheriff do after she replies to him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the crowbar breaks his legs, Johnny-Boy turns his face away from his mother. A few moments later, he turns back to her and asks her to leave.

1. Why do you think Johnny-Boy turned his face away from his mother?

2. Why do you think Johnny-Boy asks Sue to leave?

3. Do you think Sue should have done as her son asked? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

We also see that, despite her son's beliefs, Sue still feels a great deal of hate and distrust with respect to white people.

1. Do you think Sue's feelings towards white people are justified?

2. Some people call the idea of minorities hating the majority "reverse prejudice." What do you think this means and do you believe it exist?

Essay Topic 3

Sue realizes that she does not fully subscribe to her sons' Communist beliefs, she knows that the Party is extremely important to them.

1. Communism as an ideal seems to be a just and compassionate system of government. The reality is far from the ideal. Why do you think that is true?

2. Do you think that everyone should have access to benefits such as food, clothing, shelter and health care, whether rich or poor? Why or why not?

3. After doing some research of the McCarthy era in America, do you think the U.S. government had the right to persecute people who believed communism was a good system for a society? Why or why not?

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