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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 year did Jacob start school?

2. When did the American government start the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

3. How many people could the dance floor at Jake's Juke Joint hold?

4. When does Jacob think it a better time to die than in his 60s?

5. How old is Jacob when he starts writing Isaac?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was life like for Black children when Black's father was growing up?

2. How did Jacob spend his teen years?

3. What were men and women's roles in the 1960s?

4. How was Jacob educated?

5. What did Jacob learn about his grandfather after he died?

6. How was Jacob brought up by his grandparents?

7. How did Rachel's crushed dream to go to college affect her marriage to Jacob?

8. On December 1, why does Jacob say that dying is hard work?

9. When and how did Jacob's grandfather die, and how does Jacob feel?

10. How did Jacob feel when Isaac was born?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jacob and Isaac have a strained relationship. What is Jacob’s parenting style? How does his parenting style cause a strained relationship between him and Isaac?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand Jacob?

Essay Topic 3

Rachel struggled after marriage and becoming a mother. Why did Rachel struggle with marriage and motherhood?

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