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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. Where did one of the bottles cut Wright?

2. What does Mann ask Bob to sell?

3. What city will Will take Big Boy and Bobo to in the morning?

4. What phrase is Wright worried the white man in the elevator will find insulting if he said it?

5. What does the colonel promise to pay Mann back for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a black bellboy who has sex with a white prostitute?

2. Describe the confrontation between Wright and the night watchman.

3. What happens to Wright when his boss tells him to deliver groceries to a white neighborhood after dark?

4. How do people in the clothing store react to the black women being beaten?

5. What does Wright say his mother taught him in the opening section?

6. What are Big Boy and his friends doing in this chapter?

7. Why do Big Boy's friends not want to go to the swimming pool?

8. What subjects can Wright not discuss with his white employees in Memphis?

9. How do Big Boy and Bobo get home after Big Boy shoots the army officer?

10. How does Mann die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the differences between how Wright represents white characters and how he represents black characters.

1) In what way are Wright's representations of white characters unsympathetic? Are they too unsympathetic?

2) In what way does Wright suggest that any negative characteristics in a black person is down to their treatment by the whites? Is this an accurate representation?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the differences between the Jim Crow system and slavery.

1) What were the differences between the Jim Crow system and slavery?

2) In what way does Wright present the Jim Crow system as hypocritical and no better than slavery?

Essay Topic 3

Examine black femininity.

1) In what did the whites oppress black femininity?

2) How did the white man's oppression of black femininity affect black women?

3) How have black women reacted to the oppression of their femininity?

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