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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 did Karintha do as a child?

2. At twenty-two, how does Esther decide that she feels about Barlo?

3. What specifically is stated as not happening in the forest in "Nullo"?

4. Why did Carma take a lover?

5. The poem "Evening Song" is an ode to whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Karintha act out as a 12-year-old?

2. What does the speaker want the woman to do in "Her Lips are Copper Wire"?

3. Why does the speaker refer to Avey as a cow?

4. What effect does the smoke have on Karintha's surroundings the day that she gives birth to her child?

5. Why might the author use the formatting device of scripting the characters' thoughts in "Theater"?

6. Why might the author have chosen to describe Cloine while sleeping in "Evening Song"?

7. What differences do we see between Kabnis and Lewis?

8. What does the fieldmouse represent in the poem, "Reapers"?

9. Describe the procession of men leaving work as told in "Georgia Dusk."

10. Discuss the visual and social contrasts that the author sets up between Black Seventh Street and the rest of white Washington.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the stories written about theaters ("Box Seat" and Theater"). How are the characters in the stories similar/different? What does the theater represent in each?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout "Cane," we are given examples of metaphorical imagery. Using examples from the text, detail the author's use of metaphor as a means to purvey the pain and sorrow of the African-American experience in the South.

Essay Topic 3

In "Cane," we see examples of both technology and nature. Where do we see both taking place? How are they portrayed? Does Toomer present one in a positive or negative light? Why might the comparison be made? Are they representative of anything?

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