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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 kind of business does Aunt Mary run?

2. Why does James hit the boy?

3. Where does James go in this chapter?

4. What happened to black men who dated white women?

5. Who does Ruth steal money from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does James hit the boy he meets on the bus?

2. What are the problems in dating Peter?

3. How does Peter change Ruth's life?

4. What happens to James when his mother forgets to pick him up from kindergarten?

5. How does James react to Hunter's death?

6. Why did James think his mother was strange?

7. Describe the cool father at the end of Chapter 4.

8. How does Ruth's friend, Frances, support her?

9. How does the 1960s black power affect James in Chapter 3?

10. Describe Sam's life.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do the students think it is important for James to find out about his mother's past? How has his mother hiding her past affected him?

Essay Topic 2

Examine what the following generations experienced during their time in America:

1) Ruth's grandparents

2) Ruth's parents

3) Ruth and her siblings

4) James and his siblings

Essay Topic 3

Examine the following and write how they developed James as a person:

1) His relationship with Hunter

2) His experiments with drugs and crime

3) His time spent in Louisville

4) Moving to Delaware

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