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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. To whom does the narrator claim to have developed a “sympathetic bond” with at school in Chapter 2?
2. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?
3. Who does the narrator say stood at the head of his list of heroes for a long time in Chapter 2?
4. Where does the porter say he will return to school in the winter in Chapter 4?
5. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the second Pullman car porter described by the narrator in Chapter 4?
2. What does the narrator discover when he encounters the porter at a dance in Chapter 5?
3. How is the period in which the book is set described by the author? What was life like for African Americans?
4. How is the early childhood of the narrator described in Chapter 1? Where does he live?
5. Where did James Weldon Johnson attend university? How is this institution described?
6. What popular dance does the narrator describe in Chapter 5? When did the dance develop?
7. To whom were African American narratives during the Reconstruction Era generally addressed? Why?
8. Who is the narrator’s guide when he first arrives in Atlanta in Chapter 4? What are the narrator’s impressions of the city?
9. How is segregation addressed when the narrator eats his first meal in Atlanta in Chapter 4?
10. What is early education like for the narrator? When does he enter public school and how is this setting described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the segregation of white and black clubs in New York during this time period in history. Were the whites who came to the black clubs ostracized? Why or why not? When were African Americans allowed into white clubs?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the imagery and symbolism used by the narrator in describing Paris and London in Chapter 9. How does he compare these cities? What are examples of personification, simile, and metaphor in his descriptions? How does this imagery affect the tone of this chapter?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the laws regarding interracial marriage and betrothal during the late 1800s-early 1900s. When were anti-miscegenation laws introduced in the United States? When were they repealed? Were European countries similar or different in their regulations? How?
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