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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 does the narrator not want for his son in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
(a) To change homelands.
(b) To lose his French speaking skills.
(c) To adapt to the American culture.
(d) To suffer.

2. Which of the following was NOT part of the torture the black man underwent in Jesse's memory from Going to Meet the Man?
(a) Burned.
(b) Mutilated.
(c) Chained to a tree.
(d) Spit on.

3. Where does the narrator take his son in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
(a) To daycare.
(b) Downstairs to the babysitter.
(c) To his mom.
(d) To the nanny's apartment.

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

5. Who is the other black employee at Ruth's work?
(a) Mr. Davia.
(b) Mr. Davis.
(c) Mr. Daves.
(d) Mr. David.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How did the teacher's uncle die in Sonny's Blues?

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

4. In Sonny's Blues, who does the teacher run into after school one day?

5. What did Sonny want to join instead of finishing high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe where the narrator currently lives in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon.

2. What does Ruth realize at the end of Come Out the Wilderness?

3. What information does the teacher learn from the newspaper in Sonny's Blues?

4. In Going to Meet the Man, describe Jesse's memory from his childhood.

5. Describe where the narrator is from in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon.

6. Describe how the teacher's daughter dies.

7. In Sonny's Blues, why did the teacher's mother tell Sonny the story about his uncle's death?

8. What was Jesse told to stop at work that day in Going to Meet the Man?

9. In Going to Meet the Man, what does the memory of 8 year old Jesse allow him to do as an adult?

10. What happened the last time the narrator went to America in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?

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