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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. Who wrote the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come?
2. The narrator says in Chapter 1 that he feels “a sort of diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies” of his life and turn them into what?
3. On what day of the week does the narrator’s mother play the piano in Chapter 1?
4. The narrator states in Chapter 2, “In the life of every one there is a limited number of unhappy experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with” what?
5. The narrator says that when he was shown about the grounds of the university, he was especially interested in what building in Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the narrator hide his money at the rooming house in Chapter 4? Where does he go after this?
2. How are the author’s teenage years described? For whom did he work and where?
3. To whom were African American narratives during the Reconstruction Era generally addressed? Why?
4. Where did James Weldon Johnson attend university? How is this institution described?
5. Into what classes does the narrator categorize African Americans in Chapter 5?
6. Where does the narrator begin working in Jacksonville in Chapter 5?
7. What is early education like for the narrator? When does he enter public school and how is this setting described?
8. What are “slave narratives”? How are they related to the narrative of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man?
9. How is the second Pullman car porter described by the narrator in Chapter 4?
10. How is the first Pullman car porter described by the narrator? Where does the narrator meet him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the underlying racism depicted in the narrator’s classifications of African Americans in Chapter 5. In what ways does this delineation break down to personal prejudice? Do you agree or disagree with the assertions of the narrator? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the segregation of white and black clubs in New York during this time period in history. Were the whites who came to the black clubs ostracized? Why or why not? When were African Americans allowed into white clubs?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the narrator’s perception of personal identity when he arrives in Florida. How is his perception of the African Americans here different than in Georgia and in Connecticut? In what ways does the narrator incorporate himself into Spanish-speaking society in the South? How is he perceived by this ethnic minority?
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