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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. To what is Sonny’s experience compared?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Skating.
(c) Sprinting.
(d) Swimming.

2. On what does Sonny purpose to rely for education?
(a) High School.
(b) Stafford Loans.
(c) GI Bill.
(d) Pell Grants.

3. What instrument does Creole play?
(a) Bass.
(b) Piano.
(c) Guitar.
(d) Drums.

4. In what season does Grace die?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

5. On what avenue does the narrator live?
(a) Lenox.
(b) Seventh.
(c) St. Nicholas.
(d) Eighth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following songs is sung at the sidewalk revival?

2. What musician does Sonny disparage?

3. What adjective is applied to Isabel’s parents?

4. On what day does Sonny invite the narrator to hear him play?

5. From what does Grace die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Isabel realize that Sonny has left?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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