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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 collected the Uncle Remus stories in the narrative?
2. What animal does the narrator look for on the iceberg in Chapter 9?
3. Where does the narrator describe spending many evenings and where “music there made [him] strangely reminiscent of my life in Connecticut” in Chapter 9?
4. What adjective from Chapter 6 means capable of or successful in producing an intended result?
5. Where does the narrator go after leaving Nashville in Chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to the wealthy widow in Chapter 8? Why?
2. How does the narrator describe the success of the Chinese restaurant under the “Club” in Chapter 7?
3. With whom does the narrator form a friendship on the ship to Boston in Chapter 10? What do they discuss?
4. What have critics noted in regard to the relationship between the millionaire and the narrator in the novel?
5. What does the narrator do upon arriving in New York in Chapter 6?
6. How is humor used in the slave narratives and in the novel?
7. Where does the narrator go after returning to the United States in Chapter 10? Who does he meet?
8. What musical style does the narrator describe in depth in Chapter 5? When did this style emerge?
9. How did the author incorporate slave narratives in his descriptions of the South in Chapter 10?
10. How does the narrator describe the rooming house and landlord where he first stays in New York in Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the narrator’s relationship with and feelings for his father in the narrative. How does the narrator react upon learning the truth of his father’s identity? How does this realization influence the narrator’s personal identification? When does the narrator lose touch with his father, and why?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the theme of race relations in the novel. How is racial prejudice expressed through the language of the narrator during his childhood? How does the language influence the narrator’s views of African Americans and whites? What impact does this language have on readers today?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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