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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 do Herman and Thurber slam against the thing coming up the stairs?

2. What do the police find in the house?

3. What does Thurber say he is fresh from at 1.15 am?

4. What wakes up Father at 10.30 pm?

5. Where in the house does Thurber hear someone walking around?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize chapter five.

2. What happens inside the movie theater?

3. What does Aunt write that she observed from the flood?

4. How does Buck deal with his father's accusation that he is suffering from delirium?

5. How does Aunt Sarah Shoaf counter her fear of burglars?

6. How did people react to the claim the dam had burst?

7. How does Grandfather react when the police break into his room?

8. Summarize chapter four.

9. How does Thurber's mother get overexcited in this chapter?

10. How does Aunt Grace try to get rid of burglars every evening?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What problems did Thurber have in his middle years? How does he express these problems in the final chapter? In what way does the final chapter change the tone of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the generation gap between younger and the older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the characters?

Essay Topic 3

What is Thurber's opinion on black pride? How does he express his opinion?

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