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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Sonny's Blues, who does the teacher not attempt to contact at the beginning of the story?
(a) His dad.
(b) His brother's ex wife.
(c) His mom.
(d) His brother, Sonny.

2. What does the person the teacher runs into tell him about his brother, Sonny?
(a) The police will clean him up and release him.
(b) That he needs a fix.
(c) That he is sorry about his brother's arrest.
(d) That his brother is wanted by some gang members.

3. Who was seen taking money from one of the girl's purses in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
(a) Button.
(b) Boona.
(c) Boon.
(d) Baloona.

4. Why has the narrator of This Morning, This Evening, So Soon been in a bad mood all day?
(a) He does not want to move back to America.
(b) He does not want to go out to dinner.
(c) He wants to stay at home with his son.
(d) He hates his sister's and wife's date nights.

5. What common bond do Ruth and Mr. Davis have?
(a) Growing up in the American South.
(b) Being avoided.
(c) Being looked over.
(d) Being rich.

6. What was the narrator's last trip to America for in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon like?
(a) His wife's funeral.
(b) His sister's first birth.
(c) His father's funeral.
(d) His mother's funeral.

7. Why is burning the black race in his community unacceptable to Jesse in Going to Meet the Man?
(a) They would burn some white people too.
(b) It would cost too much for gasoline.
(c) It would burn the land too.
(d) They are people too.

8. How old is the narrator's son in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 9.

9. Who do the narrator and his friend meet in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
(a) 4 white Americans.
(b) 4 black Americans.
(c) 3 Swedish women.
(d) 4 Swedish women.

10. How did the teacher's uncle die in Sonny's Blues?
(a) He froze to death.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He was hit by a car.
(d) He had cancer.

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

12. What does Jesse tell his wife about when he can't sleep?
(a) A protest from when he was a kid.
(b) A pig roast when he was a kid.
(c) A protest that took place 2 days ago.
(d) A protest that took place that day.

13. 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 wife.
(d) His reflection.

14. In Come Out the Wilderness, what does Ruth's roommate suggest?
(a) They see other people.
(b) He paint her.
(c) He marry her.
(d) They go to dinner.

15. In Going to Meet the Man, what does the memory of the black man being tortured and killed enable Jesse to do?
(a) Achieve satisfaction.
(b) Achieve pleasure from pain.
(c) Release his hatred of blacks.
(d) Achieve an erection and make love to his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What suggestion does Ruth's roommate make to Ruth before he goes to lunch?

2. What did Sonny play night and day while the teacher was gone overseas in Sonny's Blues?

3. Which of the following was NOT part of the torture the black man underwent in Jesse's memory from Going to Meet the Man?

4. What was Jesse told to stop while he was working earlier that day?

5. Where are the women going at the beginning of This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?

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