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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. Who has an outing every summer in The Outing?

2. Who does Peter have dinner with after arguing with Jules in Previous Conditions?

3. What memory does Eric remember in The Man Child?

4. Who goes to intercept Gabriel as he comes home in The Rockpile?

5. What is Peter's occupation in Previous Condition?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe why Eric's mother has been in the hospital.

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

3. Describe Ida's relationship with her husband.

4. Why is Peter nervous?

5. Describe what Elizabeth fears in The Rockpile.

6. What does Peter realize in Harlem?

7. Describe what the Grimes boys do on Saturdays.

8. Who is Sylvia?

9. Describe who Jamie is.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss how Peter's skin color is the previous condition in the story, Previous Condition.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the element of guilt in Sonny's Blues in the teacher, Sonny's friend, and the teacher's dad. What is significant about Sonny's lack of visible guilt?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss why the narrator in This Morning, This Evening So Soon fears his son's move to America. What happened to the narrator that personally makes him feel such fear for his child?

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