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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 did Eric's father tell Jamie to quit doing in Eric's memory?

2. What does the pastor conduct on the boat?

3. What is the item Gabriel's wife instructs John to pick up very close to?

4. What belongs to Eric's father?

5. Where do the Grimes' boys sit every Saturday in The Rockpile?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Peter nervous?

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

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

5. Describe Gabriel.

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

7. What does Peter realize in Harlem?

8. What happens when Roy is at the rockpile?

9. What does Eric remember about one of Jamie's birthdays?

10. Who is David in The Outing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain and discuss the significance of why the teacher in Sonny's Blues writes to his brother in prison after his daughter's death and not before.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Compare and contrast Eric's father to his best friend, Jamie, from The Man Child.

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