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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. When do the actions of Previous Conditions most likely take place?

2. What does Brother Elisha go and get for Sylvia?

3. Who is crying in another room upon Gabriel's return home?

4. Where is Eric's sister?

5. What flies towards and hits the brother while he plays across the street from the Grimes' apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Previous Condition is about.

2. Describe who Jamie is.

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

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

5. Describe what Elizabeth fears in The Rockpile.

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

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

8. Describe how Gabriel is a hypocrite.

9. Describe Gabriel.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

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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