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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. How does the teacher feel when he goes to the jazz club with Sonny at the end of Sonny's Blues?
(a) Proud.
(b) Like royalty.
(c) Impressed.
(d) Happy.
2. Where did the teacher's wife learn Sonny was not going, during his stay while the teacher was overseas?
(a) Going to school.
(b) Eating.
(c) His homework.
(d) Taking tests.
3. In This Morning, This Evening, So Soon what does the narrator confess to his director friend?
(a) His fear of taking his son to America.
(b) His fear of losing his artistic creativity.
(c) His fear of leaving Paris.
(d) His fear of losing his wife and kids.
4. In Sonny's Blues, who does the teacher run into after school one day?
(a) His brother.
(b) His brother's friend.
(c) His brother's ex wife.
(d) His sister.
5. Who was arrested for selling and using heroin in Sonny's Blues?
(a) A black woman.
(b) A black man.
(c) The teacher in Harlem.
(d) Sonny, the teacher's brother.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Ruth Bowman living with in Come Out the Wilderness?
2. What does the person the teacher runs into tell him about his brother, Sonny?
3. Where are the women going at the beginning of This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
4. Which of the following was NOT part of the torture the black man underwent in Jesse's memory from Going to Meet the Man?
5. What is the narrator's son's name in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Jesse told to stop at work that day in Going to Meet the Man?
2. In Going to Meet the Man, what does the memory of 8 year old Jesse allow him to do as an adult?
3. Who feels guilty about Sonny's drug use?
4. In Sonny's Blues, why did the teacher's mother tell Sonny the story about his uncle's death?
5. Describe the narrator's last night in Paris.
6. Why is Jess frustrated at the beginning of Going to Meet the Man?
7. What does the narrator realize at the end of This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?
8. In Going to Meet the Man, describe Jesse's memory from his childhood.
9. What does Paul suggest to Ruth that makes her defenseless?
10. Describe what Ruth says to the narrator in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon.
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