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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 Ginny protect her lucky innocent nature?

2. Why does the narrator head for the East?

3. How many days did Charles sit silently at his murder trial?

4. For what is Charles on trial?

5. What nationality does Leon think the man who summoned them is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Charles seem to others and what does this lead people to think about the events that lead to his trial?

2. How does Leon describe his landlady?

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

4. What does the narrator say great literature has given way to?

5. What does Charles do that is unlike Detroit-born mechanics and what does he think will happen as a result of this?

6. Describe the character Clair as seen through Louis's eyes.

7. What does the narrator say that he is enough of a realist to accept?

8. When Mrs. Richards bets a woman is fattening Louis up for the fry, about what does Louis think?

9. What does Harold's wife, Ruth, demand he do and if he doesn't follow through, what does she say will happen?

10. What does the group of storytellers who Ginny joined consider themselves and what happens to change this?

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

"Widows and Orphans"- In what ways does this story look at blacks who have escaped the rural life in a disparaging manner? Do you believe this view still exists today? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

"A Sense of Story" - In this story the judge demands that the rules of society apply to people of all races equally. Why was this a new concept? Do you think a judge would need to demand this today? Do you believe there is still racial inequality in the judicial system? Why or why not?

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