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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What musician does Sonny disparage?
(a) Glenn Miller.
(b) Count Basie.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) Duke Ellington.

2. Approximately how long a gap in performance history did Sonny have before taking the narrator to his performance?
(a) A week.
(b) A year.
(c) A decade.
(d) A month.

3. In front of what kind of eatery is the sidewalk revival?
(a) Jerk chicken.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Barbecue.
(d) Pizza.

4. To what does the narrator compare Creole’s musicians?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Swans.
(c) Geese.
(d) Ducks.

5. From what does Grace die?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Polio.
(c) Meningitis.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare the outside world?

2. In what branch of the military had Sonny served?

3. What message does the narrator posit Creole has for Sonny?

4. To what is Sonny’s experience compared?

5. On what does Sonny purpose to rely for education?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does the narrator notice the sidewalk revival has on its attendees?

2. How does Isabel realize that Sonny has left?

3. How does the narrator depict the performer’s experience of music?

4. Why does the narrator posit that passers-by doubt the holiness of those conducting the sidewalk revival?

5. Why does the narrator express misgivings about Sonny going into music?

6. What revelation does Sonny report from listening to the sidewalk revival?

7. Why does Sonny make a point of smoking in front of the narrator after his mother’s death?

8. How does the narrator depict the common experience of hearing music?

9. What does the narrator perceive Creole asserting “the blues were all about” (47)?

10. What effect does Grace’s death have on Isabel?

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