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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 hear Henry say next door?

3. Who does Jones drive out to see at the end of Chapter 9?

4. Where do the two patrol officers take Jones and Alice?

5. Who does Jones say he wants to kill?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jones act at the party?

3. What do Alice and Jones talk about at the end of Chapter 11?

4. What problems does Jones encounter with his boss MacDougal?

5. What kind of area does Alice live in?

6. How does Mrs. Harrison think the black should deal with the white people?

7. How does Alice startle both the police and Jones when the police stop them for speeding?

8. How does Jones describe his supervisor Kelly?

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

10. What does Jones observe in the Rest Room restaurant?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How do Alice's views of the Negro problem differ from her parents' views? Why do they have such a difference in opinion?

Essay Topic 3

Why are Jones and Madge attracted to each other? Why does this attraction become so destructive?

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