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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. What race does Peter insist receives the worst discrimination?

2. How many days go by before Peter gets a visitor?

3. Who finally is able to approach Sylvia?

4. Which son is not Gabriel's biological son?

5. What is Peter afraid of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Peter nervous?

2. Describe what Previous Condition is about.

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

4. Describe how Gabriel is a hypocrite.

5. In The Man Child, describe Eric's conversation with his father about his inheritance.

6. Why is John unhappy at the end of The Outing?

7. Describe who Jamie is.

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

9. Describe what Elizabeth fears in The Rockpile.

10. Describe Peter in Previous Condition.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and explain how the narrator in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon is a reflection of Baldwin's own expatriate move to Paris during a time when blacks were treated very poorly in America.

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

Considering The Outing, discuss what Baldwin suggests about homosexuality and religious purity.

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