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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 do Lester, Buck and Bobo plan to do to Big Boy?
2. What does the white man force a black bellboy to do when the white man gets the girl pregnant?
3. What is wrong with Lulu?
4. What does Wright say his yard lacked?
5. What is Jim's job?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Big Boy and his friends doing in this chapter?
2. How does Big Boy deal with the dog that finds him?
3. What happens to Wright when his boss tells him to deliver groceries to a white neighborhood after dark?
4. What happens to Mann when the Heartfield family identifies him as the killer?
5. Why do Big Boy's friends not want to go to the swimming pool?
6. How do Big Boy's parent react when Big Boy tells them he has shot a white man?
7. What does Bob say is the situation in town?
8. How does this chapter show the four teenage boys as innocent?
9. What does Mann think about when he raises his ax to kill the family?
10. How does Mann help out at the hospital?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine black masculinity.
1) In what ways did the whites oppress black masculinity?
2) How did the white man's oppression of black masculinity affect black men?
3) How have black men reacted to the oppression of their masculinity?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Wright's life. In what way do you think his life and personality are reflected in the book? How important was Wright in changing representations of black people?
Essay Topic 3
Was the police's attitude toward black people largely responsible for white society's treatment of black people in general? What laws did black people have to obey in the South in comparison to whites? How has the relationship between the police and black people caused major problems in America in recent times?
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