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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 information that Richard gives Uncle Tom does Uncle Tom say is not accurate?

2. What does Richard typically eat for breakfast?

3. What kind of animal bites Richard?

4. What does Richard do when his employers mock him for wanting to become a writer?

5. What is the name of Granny's religion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the schoolteacher have to move out of Granny's house?

2. Why does Richard leave his job in the sawmill?

3. Why does Richard hang the kitten?

4. Why can Richard not keep his promise to his mother not to fight white children?

5. Why does Richard fight his Uncle Tom?

6. What mistake does Granny make at the end of Chapter 4?

7. What does Richard do to raise money to move away from the South?

8. What happens when Richard makes a delivery to a white neighborhood in Chapter 9?

9. What advice does Grigg offer Richard?

10. Why does Richard continue working for the second white family, even though he dislikes them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the connotations of the word "nigger."

1) What is its original meaning and what has it come to mean?

2) Why is it now considered so wrong to use?

3) Do you think the word has become too powerful?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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