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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 Cloine do while the speaker observes her?

2. What recurring dream does Esther have about her father's store?

3. How do the men in Fern's city feel about her after the narrator begins to pay her attention?

4. To whose singing does the author repeatedly compare Fern's face?

5. What are reapers' relationships to scythes?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Esther is nine, she witnesses Barlo making a public speech about what?

2. As Karintha becomes a woman, what do young men do for her?

3. What does the fieldmouse represent in the poem, "Reapers"?

4. What does the speaker ultimately decide to do about his hunger in "Harvest Song"?

5. What does the house upon Rhobert's head represent?

6. What references to the black slave experience do we see in "Portrait in Georgia"?

7. Describe the procession of men leaving work as told in "Georgia Dusk."

8. What is Barlo's reaction to Esther when she is 29 and comes for him?

9. What is the purpose of the "Song of the Son"?

10. What does the speaker want the woman to do in "Her Lips are Copper Wire"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The intersection of Black and white society in the early twentieth century is discussed thoroughly in "Cane". Where do we see this intersection? How does it affect the daily lives of those belonging to each community? Are the interactions wrought of this intersection positive or negative? What might the author be attempting to say about Black/white relations?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the first section of the book, Toomer goes to great lengths to describe the Georgian landscape. How is the land physically described? What attributes does Toomer attribute to both the land and its people? How do we see these reflected in the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the stories written about theaters ("Box Seat" and Theater"). How are the characters in the stories similar/different? What does the theater represent in each?

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