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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Come Out the Wilderness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the attitude of the white passengers change during the narrator's last trip to America in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
(a) It never changed.
(b) It was always hostile.
(c) After they set sail.
(d) As they grew closer to America.

2. What does Peter make an excuse for in Previous Conditions?
(a) To avoid a trip.
(b) To not be intimate.
(c) To leave.
(d) To not go out for desert.

3. Where does Jamie take Eric to at the end of The Man Child?
(a) A tool shed.
(b) A barn that does not house cows.
(c) A garden shed.
(d) The field's Eric is supposed to inherit.

4. Who was arrested for selling and using heroin in Sonny's Blues?
(a) A black woman.
(b) A black man.
(c) The teacher in Harlem.
(d) Sonny, the teacher's brother.

5. What is the teacher in Harlem reading at the beginning of Sonny's Blues?
(a) A magazine.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) The cereal box.
(d) A TV report.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Peter buy a drink for at the end of Previous Conditions?

2. Who is Ruth Bowman living with in Come Out the Wilderness?

3. In The Outing, who has appeared to become attached to Sylvia's side?

4. Who decides to go join his friends one day while they play across the street from the Grimes' apartment?

5. In The Man Child, what did Eric's father tell him he will inherit?

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