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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 tell the Sheriff about the meeting?

2. What does Sue tell the sheriff?

3. After Sue is on the floor again, what does the Sheriff do?

4. What did Sue see as taking precedence over her life?

5. What is one of the most consistent situations we read about in Sue's life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the sheriff do when Sue doesn't respond to his second request?

3. Who comes into the house and what does she say?

4. What is making Sue anxious?

5. What does the sheriff ask her about the meeting and what does he threaten?

6. What does Sue realize about Johnny-Boy and his work?

7. What does Sue first think she should do?

8. What does Booker do when Sue recognizes him?

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

10. What does the sheriff tell Sue and how does she respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The fact that the story takes place on a cold, rainy night is significant in that it represents the despair that Sue has endured thus far in her life. It also serves to create an ominous feeling that almost instantly gives the reader a sense that the story is not going to have a good outcome.

1. When you read the description of the weather at the beginning of the story did you have a sense of what the end might hold? Explain why or why not.

2. Do you think the weather was a type of foreshadowing? Why or why not?

3. Explain an ending to the story you might have expected if the beginning of the story had taken place on a warm, sunny day.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Before Sue leaves, she goes into Johnny-Boy's bedroom to get the gun that he keeps in his dresser drawer.

1. Do you think Sue is wrong to take a gun with her?

2. If you were in Sue's position would you have taken the gun? Why or why not?

3. Sue seems to believe the only way she can help her son is to kill Booker. Explain why you do or do not believe this is true.

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