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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Previous Conditions, what is Peter threatened with that makes him agree to leave the apartment building?

2. Who has an outing every summer in The Outing?

3. In The Rockpile, what happens after the boy is hit in the head?

4. When do the actions of Previous Conditions most likely take place?

5. How long does the brother spend across the street from his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is David in The Outing?

2. What is Eric doing when Jamie comes up to him at the end of The Man Child?

3. Describe Peter in Previous Condition.

4. Describe what Elizabeth fears in The Rockpile.

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

6. Describe who Jamie is.

7. Describe what Previous Condition is about.

8. Why does Gabriel turn his anger from Roy to John?

9. What does Elizabeth instruct John to do at the end of The Rockpile?

10. Why is Peter nervous?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and explain how the narrator's emphasis on his sister's heritage of the American south from This Morning, This Evening, So Soon foreshadows the narrator's contempt and disdain for the country.

Essay Topic 2

Describe and explain what Baldwin suggests about a black woman's personal needs and also her placement in society in his story Come Out the Wilderness.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze all of the stories in Baldwin's novel, "Going to Meet the Man" and discuss the common theme that exists in each story by considering settings, characters and events that take place.

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