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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. What book does the narrator describe as having “used to lie in splendid neglect on the center table in our little parlor” in Chapter 2?
2. The narrator’s landlady tells him that the average price for a music teacher within the African American community is how much in Chapter 5?
3. What does the narrator describe growing along the edge of the fence by the vegetable garden in Chapter 1?
4. In Chapter 5, the narrator compares the black man and his fight to what bearing the “fury of the storm”?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What popular dance does the narrator describe in Chapter 5? When did the dance develop?
2. Where did James Weldon Johnson attend university? How is this institution described?
3. To whom were African American narratives during the Reconstruction Era generally addressed? Why?
4. What advice is the narrator given after his money is stolen in Chapter 4? Who helps him out?
5. Who is the narrator of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man? What secret does he discuss in Chapter 1?
6. In what ways does the narrator show blindness and naiveté regarding his race?
7. When and where was the author of the book born and raised? How are his parents described?
8. How is segregation addressed when the narrator eats his first meal in Atlanta in Chapter 4?
9. How does dramatic irony relate to The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man?
10. Who is the narrator’s guide when he first arrives in Atlanta in Chapter 4? What are the narrator’s impressions of the city?
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
Describe and discuss the cigar industry in the late 1800s, early 1900s in Florida and Cuba. What were relations like at this time between Cuba and the United States? How many of the narrator’s coworkers hail from Cuba? What influences do they have on him?
Essay Topic 3
Define and identify motif in literature, and the motifs in the narrative. How does violence apply to the novel as a motif? In what ways does the narrator associate violence with the African American community? How does this differ from the white community?
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