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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 do the two characters take advantage of in their moment alone?

2. Where does Jamie tell Eric his father wants to see him at in The Man Child?

3. Who is David in The Outing?

4. What is the boy's mother concerned about when her son comes home injured?

5. What belongs to Eric's father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Peter nervous?

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

8. Describe Gabriel.

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

10. In The Outing, what does the church do every 4th of July and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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.

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