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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 Sue need to do with the clothes in the zinc wash tub?

2. What does Johnny-Boy do after eating?

3. What does Sue feel about Johnny-Boy after dinner?

4. What does Sue realize about Johnny-Boy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with Sue soon after the sheriff left?

2. What does Sue do about the admonishment from the men and what does the sheriff ask her?

3. What does Johnny-Boy do when Sue is standing near him?

4. What does Sue tell Johnny-Boy about Reva?

5. What does Sue do when she feels she wants to be alone?

6. How does Reva feel about Sue's answers to her questions?

7. What is the first thing the men do to Johnny-Boy after Sue arrives and why?

8. What kind of work does Sue start to do after looking out the window? What does she wish for as she works?

9. How does Sue feel about Booker helping her and what does she do?

10. What is Sue asked as she rises to her feet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this section, we also see Sue handle the first of many decisions she will need to make during this story. Recall how, when deciding to tell Johnny-Boy about the potential for trouble, Sue decides to first wait until he has had his dinner and then delays even further by waiting until he has had a chance to rest.

1. Do you think Sue has a difficult time making decisions? Why or why not?

2. If you were in Sue's position, would you have handled the situation with Johnny-Boy the same way? If not, how would you have done it? If so, why?

3. Do you think procrastinating about almost any decision is a way of making a decision? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Sue spends the next several hours huddled over her stove contemplating all that has happened. She knows that she will likely never see either of her sons again.

1. Would you consider this a foreshadow? Why or why not?

2. Do you think that Sue's feelings about her son are justified or is it imagination due to a mother's fear? Why or why not?

3. Do you think that most parents worry that something will happen to their child whenever a child leaves the home? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

We also see that, despite her son's beliefs, Sue still feels a great deal of hate and distrust with respect to white people.

1. Do you think Sue's feelings towards white people are justified?

2. Some people call the idea of minorities hating the majority "reverse prejudice." What do you think this means and do you believe it exist?

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