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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 Ruth suspect about her roommate in Come Out the Wilderness?

2. What did Sonny tell the teacher he wanted to be when he returned home after their mother died?

3. In Going to Meet the Man, what is unfortunate about the blacks in Jesse's town according to Jesse?

4. In Going to Meet the Man, what does the memory of the black man being tortured and killed enable Jesse to do?

5. Why was Jess not surprised by the kid he beat up?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the teacher feel at the club with his brother in Sonny's Blues?

2. What information does the teacher learn from the newspaper in Sonny's Blues?

3. What happened to the teacher's uncle and why is it significant?

4. What does Ruth realize at the end of Come Out the Wilderness?

5. What happened the last time the narrator went to America in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?

6. Describe Ruth Bowman's living situation in Come Out the Wilderness.

7. How does the teacher react to Sonny's imprisonment?

8. Describe how the teacher's daughter dies.

9. In Going to Meet the Man, what does the memory of 8 year old Jesse allow him to do as an adult?

10. What did Jesse see in his mother and father's face when he was 8 years old?

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

Analyze and explain what Baldwin suggests about friendship in The Man Child with Eric's father and Jamie.

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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