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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. What does the narrator say he has never been good at because his “ideas of interpretation were always too strongly individual”?
3. The landlady and her husband at the boarding house tell the narrator that the big winter hotels would not open within how much time in the beginning of Chapter 5?
4. How does the narrator say he changed his attitudes toward his peers after the discovery that he was biracial?
5. How does the narrator describe the chairs in the parlor at the rooming house where he arrives in the beginning of Chapter 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the author’s teenage years described? For whom did he work and where?
2. Who is the narrator’s guide when he first arrives in Atlanta in Chapter 4? What are the narrator’s impressions of the city?
3. Where does the narrator begin working in Jacksonville in Chapter 5?
4. What is early education like for the narrator? When does he enter public school and how is this setting described?
5. In what ways does the narrator show blindness and naiveté regarding his race?
6. What event takes place informing the narrator of his ethnic heritage in his early years? How does he react to the information?
7. How is segregation addressed when the narrator eats his first meal in Atlanta in Chapter 4?
8. How does the motif of music apply in the novel? What is the narrator’s relationship to music?
9. What elements does the novel share with the Realist Movement in literary style?
10. When and where was the author of the book born and raised? How are his parents described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the character of the narrator’s mother and her relationship with the narrator in his youth. Why does the narrator’s mother not inform him of his heritage before he discovers the truth at school? How do the other students react to the narrator’s misunderstanding with the principal? How does the narrator’s discovery of his black heritage influence his personal view of himself and of the others around him?
Essay Topic 2
Elaborate on the setting of New York City in the narrative. How does the African American culture in New York at this time differ from what the narrator has experienced in Connecticut, Georgia, or Florida? What are his perceptions of the black community here? How does the music inspire the narrator?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the laws regarding interracial marriage and betrothal during the late 1800s-early 1900s. When were anti-miscegenation laws introduced in the United States? When were they repealed? Were European countries similar or different in their regulations? How?
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