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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 Cora tell Bert the Colonel wants to do to him?

2. What are these men doing as they visit?

3. On what subject do Bert, Cora and William stay?

4. On what does little Billy begin playing?

5. With what does the Colonel start to follow Bert?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this scene open?

2. What is Sam doing at the beginning of the scene?

3. What does Cora tell Bert, when he says he will no longer work in the fields?

4. Why do things become violent between Norwood and Bert?

5. What does Cora tell him to do?

6. How does Bert respond to what Cora tells him?

7. What is Cora's response to William's request?

8. Who is Sam? What does he ask to Colonel?

9. What is happening outside? What does Bert do?

10. About what are Norwood and Cora discussing, regarding Sallie and Robert?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sallie secretly is training to be a school teacher.

Part 1) Why is this a secret? Why does the Colonel send her to school in the first place?

Part 2) How does the Colonel's sending Sallie to school reflect his attitude towards his mulatto children?

Part 3) Why might Sallie want to be a school teacher? How would Norwood react if he was to find out? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Bert used to be Norwood's favorite.

Part 1) Why might Bert have been Norwood's favorite?

Part 2) What changed this? How is Norwood to blame for this change?

Part 3) How does Norwood's attitude towards Bert reflect how he feels about the rest of his children with Cora and possibly his other "darkies" as well?

Essay Topic 3

Bert is filled with hatred.

Part 1) Who does he hate? Why?

Part 2) What has caused this hatred? Is he able to rid himself of this hatred? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does Bert's hatred reflect that of many African Americans at this time in American history?

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