Uncle Tom's Children Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 105 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Uncle Tom's Children Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 105 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. Where do Mann and Brinkley take the Heartfield family?

2. Who is the only one of the four boys who wants to go swimming?

3. What does Mann use to make a hole in the ceiling?

4. What do the black workers load the cement bags into?

5. Who tries to follow Lulu's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the confrontation between Wright and the night watchman.

2. What happens to Mann when the Heartfield family identifies him as the killer?

3. Describe the encounter Wright has with some white boys when he gets a flat tire.

4. How does this chapter show the four teenage boys as innocent?

5. What does Mann think about when he raises his ax to kill the family?

6. What happens to a black bellboy who has sex with a white prostitute?

7. Why do Wright's co-workers at the optical factory not like him?

8. Why does the white hospital staff laugh in this chapter?

9. Describe Wright's house.

10. How does Mann help the Heartfields in Chapter 12?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine black masculinity.

1) In what ways did the whites oppress black masculinity?

2) How did the white man's oppression of black masculinity affect black men?

3) How have black men reacted to the oppression of their masculinity?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the structure of the book.

1) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's ideas?

2) Examine the way Wright uses other people in the story to express his ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Pick a character from the novel and discuss his goals and motives. Does he achieve his motives? Does he share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do his goals clash with other characters? How do the characters goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

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