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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 begins to feel like a sinner in The Outing?

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

3. Who finally is able to approach Sylvia?

4. When lunch begins, what does everyone eat out of in The Outing?

5. What does Peter's dinner date hit him affectionately with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe who Jamie is.

3. In Previous Condition, what does Peter do at the end of the story?

4. In The Outing, why does Gabriel get angry and feel powerless?

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

6. Describe how Gabriel is a hypocrite.

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

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

9. What does Roy tell John he's going to do one day?

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

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

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and explain what Ruth from Come Out the Wilderness realizes about her relationships with the white men she has dated and why they all fail.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the element of foreshadowing in The Man Child, Sonny's Blues, and This Morning, This Evening, So Soon.

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