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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 do the two characters take advantage of in their moment alone?
(a) The time to embrace.
(b) The time to be away from the adults.
(c) The time to kiss.
(d) The time to tell secrets.

2. What is Gabriel's wife supremely fearful of?
(a) If Gabriel will leave her.
(b) Gabriel turning his anger to her.
(c) If her son will see again.
(d) Gabriel turning his anger to his daughter.

3. Where did Eric's father take Eric in his memory?
(a) To the factory.
(b) To the treehouse.
(c) No where.
(d) On a walk.

4. What does Gabriel demand to know from his wife?
(a) Why Roy was in the garden.
(b) Why Roy was playing in the treehouse.
(c) Why Roy was not at school.
(d) Why Roy was playing on the rockpile.

5. Who's birthday does the outing fall close to this year?
(a) David's.
(b) Roy's.
(c) John's.
(d) Sylvia's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Outing, who finds themselves alone during lunch?

2. What does Brother Elisha go and get for Sylvia?

3. What have children been warned about in regards to what lies across the street from the Grimes' apartment?

4. Who did Eric's father tell Eric worked too hard?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Gabriel is a hypocrite.

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

3. Describe who Jamie is.

4. Describe what Previous Condition is about.

5. In The Outing, why does Gabriel get angry and feel powerless?

6. Describe Gabriel.

7. What does Peter realize in Harlem?

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

9. Why will Jamie never have children, according to Eric's father?

10. Who is David in The Outing?

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