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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 May Day mean each year?

2. How did the narrator indicate he hurt his nose?

3. What is it rumored that Billy lost fighting a redneck near Limehouse, SC?

4. Which of the following characters seems deeply moved by Farragot's story?

5. How long after Billy goes to work for Dillingham does the meeting in Chicago occur?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the man with the massive tiara of black hair looks into Butler's shop, what does Butler offer him and how does the man respond?

2. Why is Tarwell considering hiring Butler and how does Butler feel about this?

3. What happens when Willis Davis tries to join the Henry Street guys?

4. As Gloria sees it what defines the people as southerners and northern?

5. Describe Gloria in regards to her views on country music and the south. Be sure to include where she is from.

6. How does Willis confront Jones and what does Willis say to him?

7. What kind of person is Billy?

8. What happens when the narrator of this story asks the woman sitting in the waiting room how she got the scar on her face?

9. What does Milford's brief say about his client and what does this seem to contradict?

10. What does Leon become a rival for with the author and how does he show up the author?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"The Story of a Scar"- What do you believe are the three major themes of this story? Do you believe this is a love story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

"Problems of Art" - In what way does this story deal with the fate of blacks in a white-controlled judicial system? Do you believe Mrs. Farragot was wise to insist on a white attorney? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

"Just Enough for the City" - Why do the evangelists become frustrated with the narrator? How does this story portray the black narrator? Why do you think this way?

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