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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 Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
2. What city does the narrator describe as “a big, dull, red town” in Chapter 4?
3. 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?
4. The narrator of the novel was born a few years after the close of what war?
5. What does the narrator have for breakfast that is described as “so light and flaky that a fellow with any appetite at all would have no difficulty in disposing of eight or ten” in Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. What elements does the novel share with the Realist Movement in literary style?
2. Where does the narrator hide his money at the rooming house in Chapter 4? Where does he go after this?
3. Who is the narrator’s guide when he first arrives in Atlanta in Chapter 4? What are the narrator’s impressions of the city?
4. What are “slave narratives”? How are they related to the narrative of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man?
5. How is the period in which the book is set described by the author? What was life like for African Americans?
6. How are the author’s teenage years described? For whom did he work and where?
7. How does the motif of music apply in the novel? What is the narrator’s relationship to music?
8. What does the narrator discover when he encounters the porter at a dance in Chapter 5?
9. Where did James Weldon Johnson attend university? How is this institution described?
10. What advice is the narrator given after his money is stolen in Chapter 4? Who helps him out?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author of the book and its genre. Why did James Weldon Johnson choose to use the term “autobiography” in the work’s title? Why was it initially published with an anonymous author? When was it republished with the author’s name? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era of the United States, and the settings of Georgia and Connecticut during this time period. Where in Georgia does the narrator live with his mother? How does he describe his home and the people in his childhood community? What details does he describe of his father?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the history of segregation in the South, and particularly in Georgia. When were the Jim Crow laws enacted? When were they repealed? How did these laws influence society in the South? What segregation does the narrator experience before going to the South?
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