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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 Rose and Butler go on page 75 after Benjie comes home from the hospital?

2. What is the name of Miss Emma Dudley's sister?

3. Where does Nigeria Green say that the upper crust crowd went for gin and ginger after the event to honor the Negro writer?

4. On page 75, what does Benjie pray for?

5. How much did Nigeria Greene and his wife pay for a ticket to see a Negro "writer-rascal" (96)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Benjie decide to do on page 76?

2. How does Benjie feel about the school cafeteria?

3. Why does Benjie's new bedspread in his room have bunnies on it?

4. How does Benjie feel about being in the hospital?

5. What does Rose buy from the reader and what does she get at no charge, and what is she to do with the items?

6. What happens when Benjie steals Miss Dudley's toaster?

7. Who is Mme. Snowson?

8. How do Rose and Butler dress and act when they go out?

9. How does Tiger let people know when his aunt is home and he cannot have kids over smoking and doing drugs?

10. What does Benjie say that he knows about using on page 88?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon his interpretation of life. How does the author use artistic license to make the novel seem like it really happened?

Essay Topic 2

Greene determined that he wanted to be a teacher. When and why did Green determine that he wanted to be a teacher? How did he have to compromise what he believed in to achieve his goal and become a teacher?

Essay Topic 3

Benjie resents Butler at the beginning of the novel. How would you describe the relationship between Benjie and Butler during most of the book? How and why does their relationship change?

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