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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flies towards and hits the brother while he plays across the street from the Grimes' apartment?
(a) A cherry.
(b) A tree branch.
(c) A can.
(d) A rock.

2. Who has seen Peter at the apartment that makes Peter becomes more nervous?
(a) The landlady.
(b) A girl across the hall.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) A few tenants.

3. What does Eric ask his father about Jamie in his memory?
(a) If Jamie is rich.
(b) If Jamie is poor.
(c) If Jamie is sick.
(d) If Jamie will ever have a son.

4. Who goes to intercept Gabriel as he comes home in The Rockpile?
(a) John.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Roy.
(d) Sister McCandless.

5. In The Outing, what does Sylvia ask David?
(a) Why he is not saved.
(b) If he will go on a walk with her.
(c) Why she has never seen him before.
(d) If he will kiss her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter's dinner date hit him affectionately with?

2. Where does Peter go to in Harlem?

3. What is Eric doing at the beginning of The Man Child?

4. Who suggests to Peter he fight the eviction?

5. What do the two characters take advantage of in their moment alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. In The Outing, what does the church do every 4th of July and why?

2. What is Eric doing at the beginning of The Man Child?

3. Describe Ida's relationship with her husband.

4. Who is Sylvia?

5. Describe Peter in Previous Condition.

6. Who is David in The Outing?

7. Describe how Peter behaves at the restaurant with Ida in Previous Condition.

8. What does Roy tell John he's going to do one day?

9. Describe who Jamie is.

10. Describe what the children are told will happen if they play on the rockpile in The Rockpile.

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