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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 Johnny Boy say he does not believe in?

2. Who does Sarah think her husband will kill?

3. What does Johnny say he does believe in?

4. What is dragging Sarah into the hole?

5. What is the name of Ruth's baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the confrontation between Sue and the sheriff in Chapter 23.

2. What does Pastor Dan Taylor think about at the beginning of Chapter 17?

3. What did Sue used to believe in?

4. What does Taylor say in his speech?

5. What is Johnny-Boy doing in Chapter 21?

6. What does Johnny say he believes in in this chapter?

7. What problems does Sue have with Booker in Chapter 24?

8. How does Sarah know Tom?

9. What does Sue worry about in Chapter 22?

10. What idea does Sue have in Chapter 25?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the relationship between education and racist attitudes.

1) How important is education in teaching children about the dangers of racism?

2) How has education played an important part in changing racial attitudes?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the religious connotations in the book.

1) How does Wright represent black people's relationship with Christianity?

2) Why does Sue change her Christian faith for Communism?

Essay Topic 3

Examine violence in the novel.

1) What are differences in the stories between how black people are violent and how white people are violent?

2) In what way does the violence play an important part in getting Wright's view across?

3) How do the students think the public reacted to the novel's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to such a book today?

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