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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 does Granny equate literary fiction with?

2. What does Nathan work as?

3. What city does Alan move to?

4. In what way does Richard think thievery is encouraged?

5. What does Richard do to stop feeling so hungry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What job does Richard find in Chapter 5?

2. Why does Richard think racism encourages theft?

3. What does Richard do after he has read his speech at graduation?

4. What does the family decide is the best way to care for Richard and his brother?

5. How does Richard's ability to read and write help him in Chapter 3?

6. How does Richard respond when his principal demands that he reads his speech for graduation?

7. How does Granny injure herself in Chapter 5?

8. What advice does Grigg offer Richard?

9. Why does Granny beat Richard with a wet towel?

10. How does Richard's mother punish him for burning down the house?

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

Examine the differences between how Wright represents white characters and how he represents black characters.

1) In what way are Wright's representations of white characters unsympathetic? Are his representations too unsympathetic?

2) In what way does Wright suggest that the way a white person treats a black person directly influences some of the black people's illegal behavior? Is this an accurate representation?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the relationship between education and racist attitudes.

1) How has education played an important part in changing racial attitudes?

2) How did education in the past help to develop racial attitudes?

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