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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sue primarily afraid of that night?
(a) Being beaten by the sheriff.
(b) Losing her son.
(c) Sug being hung.
(d) Reva's father killing Johnny-Boy.

2. Who is Sue thinking about in the opening paragraphs of the story?
(a) Johnny-Boy.
(b) Her sister, Ethel.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her dead husband.

3. Even after joining the Communists, in what did Sue find comfort?
(a) Talking to her minister.
(b) Being in a pray group.
(c) Old spiritual songs.
(d) Going to church.

4. What does the word 'reiterate' mean?
(a) To argue about principle.
(b) To stare in silence.
(c) To say again.
(d) To return home.

5. What does Johnny-Boy do when he comes home?
(a) Goes to bed.
(b) Takes a shower.
(c) Eats dinner.
(d) Takes off his shoes and lights his pipe.

6. What does Sue do after Johnny-Boy finishes eating?
(a) Starts to iron again.
(b) Goes to bed.
(c) The dishes.
(d) More laundry.

7. What has the sheriff discovered that has him upset?
(a) Johnny-Boy hit a car and left the scene.
(b) Sue hasn't finished his laundry yet.
(c) There's to be a party meeting.
(d) Reva stole some drugs.

8. When Sue continues to refuse to answer the Sheriff's questions, what does he do?
(a) He offers her money for the answers.
(b) He ties Sue up and begins systematic torture.
(c) He shoots Sue.
(d) He and his men leave the house.

9. How did life seem to Sue after one of her sons went to jail?
(a) No different than before.
(b) Dull.
(c) Easier.
(d) More difficult.

10. What does Sue tell the Sheriff about the meeting?
(a) That her son is not attending the meeting.
(b) She refuses to tell him anything.
(c) That the location is going to be moved every hour.
(d) That they have canceled the meeting.

11. What happens when Johnny-Boy dozes off?
(a) Reva comes back.
(b) He starts to snore.
(c) Lightning hits the house.
(d) His pipe drops to the floor.

12. What is Sue doing when she realizes someone is in her house?
(a) Reading.
(b) Washing clothes.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Sleeping.

13. How did Sue feel about people who tried to destroy the Party?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Pity.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Understanding.

14. What does Sue tell Johnny-Boy about Reva?
(a) That she loves him.
(b) That she was arrested.
(c) That her father beat her up.
(d) That she came over.

15. How does Johnny-Boy feel when his mother keeps talking at him?
(a) Happy.
(b) Inspired.
(c) Impatient.
(d) Stupid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sheriff tell Sue?

2. Where is Sug at the beginning of the story?

3. What does Sue sense that night about her son, Johnny-Boy?

4. What is the weather like at the opening of Bright and Morning Star?

5. How does Sue taunt the Sheriff?

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