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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. Why does the character Paul Frost, leave Kansas?

2. Why does Charles's lawyer want his crime to be called manslaughter?

3. With what color does Harold say is the only color that he is concerned?

4. Why does the judge's secretary tell him he must shine at the meeting?

5. Why does Leon rush back to the breakfast room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the editor feel obliged to impose order on the piece of writing in front of him?

2. What does Ruth want to advise Harold to do and what does she do instead?

3. What does the narrator say to those who come to him telling him that anything not in the Bible is false?

4. What does Clair talk about during her part of the dinner?

5. Where does this story take place?

6. What makes Eunice wonder about the hotel's breakfast calls?

7. What does Paul do after months of silence at the mental hospital?

8. What does Leon say that causes her to call her husband a bigot?

9. What does Jed Jones say happened after he heard the shots?

10. What is the first parable about the narrator shares?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"A Loaf of Bread" - Of what are Brown and the white bread symbolic? Who do you think was right, Nelson, Harold, or neither? Why do you think this way?

Essay Topic 2

"The Faithful" - In this story, the main character views his community (the black community) as being divided by their family origins. Do you agree that family origins can divide a community? 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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