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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 does Ruth say about Suffolk?

2. What does James force his mother to do in this chapter?

3. Which of Ruth's siblings lives in Brooklyn?

4. What kind of job does Ruth find in this chapter?

5. Whose educations and careers does James list in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way do Ruth and Andrew become more involved in religion in Chapter 23?

2. How is Ruth's life getting better at the age of sixty five?

3. Describe Andrew and Ruth's relationship.

4. Describe the wedding James and Ruth attend in this chapter.

5. Summarize the book.

6. In what way does James' life take a turn for the better in Delaware?

7. Describe the blood sacrifice of a chicken.

8. How does Ruth react to Irene's death?

9. How does Ruth's relationship with Andrew affect her family life?

10. How does Andrew help Ruth get over her mother's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine how James' life compares with his mother's.

1) What individual difficulties did both characters endure?

2 How did they use their experiences in life to help one another?

Essay Topic 2

What events in James' early life influenced him to become a musician? How different do the students think James' life would have been if she had not grown up in poverty?

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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