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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do James and Mama have to walk across to get to the café?
2. What does James do when he feels something hit his cap?
3. What color of overcoat does the little boy have on that James sees while he and Mama walk away from the dentist's office?
4. What happens to James when he sees a coat while he and Mama walk past the boy in the brown coat and past the store windows?
5. Who enters the waiting room at the beginning of Chapter 9?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Even though James' Daddy was sent away to the Army, he still plays a very important role in the story, The Sky is Gray. How would the story be different if James' Daddy was still at home? Which characters would be affected the most by his presence in the household? How do you think the story would be different if Jame's Daddy was not mentioned in the book or if he had died? How does Daddy's absence affect Mama? How does Daddy's absence affect James? Do you think that Daddy's absence affects other characters in the book? Who and how?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the different moods presented in the story, The Sky is Gray. What type of events help to create the moods in each chapter or section of the story? How do the moods change throughout the book? Are there any underlying moods that stay throughout the whole story? If so, what are they? By the end of the book, has the mood changed for the better or for the worst?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 7 of The Sky is Gray, there is a conversation between the preacher and a boy in the waiting room. They get into a heated argument and the preacher ends up hitting the boy. Why did the preacher feel it was necessary to take physical action with the boy? Do you think the patrons of the dentist's office cared that the preacher had hit the boy? Why or why not? Do you think hitting the boy helped the preacher find favor with the other people waiting? Did the preacher feel he was right in hitting the boy? Does the preacher think that God finds favor in what he did to the boy? Why or why not?
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