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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 does the pastor conduct on the boat?

2. Where does Peter go to in Harlem?

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

4. What memory does Eric remember in The Man Child?

5. Who does Peter buy a drink for at the end of Previous Conditions?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Elizabeth fears in The Rockpile.

2. Why is Peter nervous?

3. Describe Gabriel.

4. Who is Sylvia?

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

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

7. Describe Peter in Previous Condition.

8. What do Peter's friends suggest he fight in Previous Condition?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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