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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 music does the salesman play on the graphophone?

2. Who does Bonds say the police have put in jail?

3. What does Sarah dream she is being dragged into?

4. What does the mayor describe both himself and Taylor as?

5. Who does Sue see when she wakes up?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the sheriff break Johnny's ear drum?

2. What are Hadley and Green worried about in Chapter 18?

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

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

5. What idea does Sue have in Chapter 25?

6. Describe the confrontation between Silas and the white men in Chapter 16.

7. What does Sue worry about in Chapter 22?

8. Why does Silas get angry in Chapter 15?

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

10. How does Sarah know Tom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the connotations of the word "nigger."

1) What is its original meaning and what has it come to mean?

2) Why is it now considered so wrong to use?

3) Do you think the word has become too powerful?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the relationship between Communism and Christianity.

1) In what way is Communism the opposite of Christianity?

2) Why does Wright show Communism as a forward move for black people?

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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