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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 do Headeye and Fish-Hound argue about at one point?

2. What is Layton's last name in "Goodbye, Sweetwater"?

3. What instrument does Jan play?

4. What does Layton try to give the white man who visits his grandmother's house?

5. What does Johnny B do with Mr. Westland's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mack hurt himself at the end of "A Harlem Game"?

2. In "Rope of Wind," what happens to the prisoner at the end?

3. What does Layton's flower in "A Boll of Roses" symbolize?

4. Where does Headeye go in "Ark of Bones" at the end of the story?

5. Who saves Fon from lynching in "Fon"?

6. How do the police treat the main characters in "Strike and Fade"?

7. What does Nillmon intend to do to Fon in "Fon"?

8. What is one reason Dumas has the characters constantly joking in "Double Nigger"?

9. In "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," what instrument does Probe play and how did he get it?

10. In "Double Nigger," what are the characters desperate for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What elements of magical realism can you identify and explain throughout this collection? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Dumas intends for the different tribes and for Sunra to represent in the story "The Metagenesis of Sunra?" Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

In "Double Nigger," what several purposes does Dumas attach to the group of friends' constant joking and teasing? How do these jokes take on a different cast after the friends' interactions with the white man in the truck? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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