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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sue do after Johnny-Boy leaves?
(a) Cries.
(b) Throws his clothes into the yard.
(c) Watch him disappear into the night.
(d) Goes to bed.

2. What does Sue need to do with the clothes in the zinc wash tub?
(a) Iron them.
(b) Wash them.
(c) Mend them.
(d) Fold them.

3. What made Sue feel anxious and worried at the beginning of the story?
(a) She learned a Communist meeting had been called.
(b) Her brother went into the hospital.
(c) Sug was supposed to be home yesterday.
(d) Her mother has been ill.

4. Why does Sue want Johnny-Boy to have some money?
(a) So he can take Reva on a date.
(b) So he can buy a car.
(c) In case he needs to leave town.
(d) So he can eat when out and about.

5. Why did Johnny-Boy think it was necessary to take in so many members so quickly?
(a) To spread out the meeting places.
(b) To collect more dues.
(c) To make the party grow and become strong.
(d) So he could get outside help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sue see one of the men in her house do?

2. What does Reva tell Sue to tell Johnny-Boy?

3. What does Sue say to the people in her house?

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

5. What does Sue feel strongly about Johnny-Boy while Reva is there?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Johnny-Boy feel about his mother pushing him?

2. How did life feel to Sue after Sug was arrested?

3. How does Sue respond to Johnny-Boy's defense?

4. What does Sue tell Booker eventually and how does she feel about it?

5. What types of trials has Sue handled in her life thus far?

6. How does Sue feel and what does she tell Booker when he offers to help her?

7. How does Johnny-Boy respond to his mother's comments about his work?

8. What does Sue do with the gun and where does she go? What does she see as she approaches?

9. Of what is Sue certain after she hears what Booker says about the sheriff?

10. What happens when Booker comes into the clearing?

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