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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 happens while the brother plays across the street from his apartment in The Rockpile?

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

3. What is Gabriel's wife supremely fearful of?

4. What exists across the street from the Grimes family?

5. What do the conversations deal with as conversations abound at lunch in The Outing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Gabriel.

2. Why is Peter nervous?

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

4. Describe what the children are told will happen if they play on the rockpile in The Rockpile.

5. Why does David begin to feel like a sinner?

6. Describe Peter in Previous Condition.

7. What happens to Eric at the end of The Man Child?

8. What happens when Roy is at the rockpile?

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

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

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 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?

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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