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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth wonder about her coworkers?
(a) What they think about her.
(b) What they would do if Mr. Davis asked them out.
(c) What they think about African Americans in general.
(d) What they would think if they knew about her and her roommate.

2. What does Ruth suspect about her roommate in Come Out the Wilderness?
(a) Doing drugs.
(b) Eating her foods.
(c) Spending her money.
(d) Spending time with other women.

3. Who does the narrator of This Morning, This Evening, So Soon watch at the beginning of the story?
(a) His children.
(b) His sister.
(c) His reflection.
(d) His wife.

4. Who takes Ruth to lunch in Come Out the Wilderness?
(a) Mr. Davis.
(b) Ruth's mom.
(c) Ruth's roommate.
(d) The secretaries.

5. In This Morning, This Evening, So Soon what did the narrator find himself face to face with in New York?
(a) His sister.
(b) Racial discrimination.
(c) The same bigotry he thought he'd left behind years before.
(d) His ex girlfriend.

6. In This Morning, This Evening, So Soon what does the narrator confess to his director friend?
(a) His fear of losing his wife and kids.
(b) His fear of leaving Paris.
(c) His fear of losing his artistic creativity.
(d) His fear of taking his son to America.

7. In Sonny's Blues, what does the teacher wonder as he lies in his bed the first night Sonny is out of prison staying with him?
(a) If his brother really is clean.
(b) If his brother will use again.
(c) If he should search his room.
(d) If he could have prevented his brother from being in this situation.

8. What does Ruth know her roommate is doing after he makes his suggestion to her in Come Out the Wilderness?
(a) Relieving her anxiety.
(b) Being truthful and up front.
(c) Avoiding lies that bring tension.
(d) Letting her go slowing and painfully.

9. Who did Jesse beat while he was at work earlier that day?
(a) No one.
(b) The head prisoner.
(c) The head gang leader.
(d) The leader from the protests.

10. How does the teacher feel when he goes to the jazz club with Sonny at the end of Sonny's Blues?
(a) Impressed.
(b) Proud.
(c) Happy.
(d) Like royalty.

11. How does the teacher feel as he writes to his brother, Sonny?
(a) Guilty for not having written before.
(b) Sad and desperate.
(c) Responsible for his brother's failures.
(d) Calm and stable.

12. What did Sonny play night and day while the teacher was gone overseas in Sonny's Blues?
(a) The electric guitar.
(b) The bass guitar.
(c) The piano.
(d) The harmonica.

13. What does Jesse want to see happen to the blacks in his community in Going to Meet the Man?
(a) All of them burned.
(b) Nothing.
(c) To be evactuated.
(d) All of them lynched.

14. In Going to Meet the Man, who did the person Jesse beat up turn out to be related to?
(a) A woman he used to collect money from.
(b) A woman he used to take money to.
(c) A woman he used to live next to.
(d) A woman he used to work for.

15. In Going to Meet the Man, where did Jesse and his parents go before driving back home in Jesse's memory?
(a) Jesse's grandpas.
(b) A nearby town.
(c) The local diner.
(d) Jesse's grandmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jesse frustrated at the start of Going to Meet the Man?

2. What is Ruth's roommate in Come Out the Wilderness on the verge of?

3. Who do the narrator and his friend meet in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?

4. In Come Out the Wilderness, how does Ruth feel about her roommate's suggestion?

5. In Come Out the Wilderness, what does Ruth's roommate suggest?

(see the answer keys)

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