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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 is Bon Bon's real name?

2. Who did T.C. get pregnant?

3. What did T.C. get locked up for the first time?

4. How long was Renard gone when Evelyn found out she was pregnant?

5. How do T.C. and Tiger have their hair styled?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Evelyn's outlook on her pregnancy?

2. What two women does T.C. compare to each other and why?

3. Why does Sybil talk so poorly about her clients?

4. Why is Jackie in a hurry to get Sybil out of her apartment?

5. Where and why does Tiger take T.C. to eat when he is released from prison?

6. What will happen if T.C. gets busted again?

7. What did T.C. do when he lost his scholarship to LSU?

8. Jackie wants time to process things according to her own set of values. What does this mean?

9. What happens when T.C. goes to visit Bon Bon?

10. Why does Jackie have a stressful relationship with Sybil?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining how the Jim Crow era that Evelyn lived through has affected her children and grandchildren as they come of age in their own timelines. Include whether or not racial disparity still exists today.

Essay Topic 2

T.C. and Tiger use intense, vulgar language when speaking to each other. Write an essay detailing how their dialogue is authentic and why that authenticity is important to the development of their characters.

Essay Topic 3

T.C. is searching for something to make him feel better, and he expresses that selling drugs is soothing to him. Write an essay explaining how and why a stressful, illegal enterprise can feel good to T.C.

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