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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 color is the white boy's hair?

2. What does the narrator carry his muscle as high as?

3. What does Jones describe as a frightening conversation?

4. What was the name of the theater the narrator went to the previous night?

5. What is Alice's father's title?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jones feel like when he leaves Alice's house?

2. Why does Jones decide not to kill the white boy?

3. What racial problems does Jones say he encounters on the way to work?

4. How does Jones describe his supervisor Kelly?

5. What problems does Jones have with the white boy?

6. What do Alice and her friends talk about in this section?

7. What does Jones dream about the police in Chapter 1?

8. What problem do Baldwin and Wright have with each other?

9. How does Jones say the white women treat him?

10. Why does Dr. Harrison say he is proud of black men in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of life were black people leading in 1940s America? Choose one of the black characters in the book and discuss how that character symbolizes the changes occurring in forties America?

Essay Topic 2

How is Himes' work different from Wright's and Baldwin's? In what way is Himes' work equally relevant to his more famous counterparts'?

Essay Topic 3

How did the war affect how people thought of black people in America? How much did it contribute to the racial revolution over the next 30 years?

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