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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 are the name of the two communists Taylor has to meet?

2. Who visits Taylor in this section?

3. What do the whites order Taylor to do after they whip him?

4. What is the name of Sarah's husband?

5. What does Reva confirm to Sue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conflict does Sue have in Chapter 25?

3. What idea does Sue have in Chapter 25?

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

5. How does Sarah know Tom?

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

7. What does Brother Bond say has happened to the Communists?

8. How does Sue react to the white men in her kitchen?

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

10. What do the white men do to Taylor while he lies in the car?

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the whites' oppression of black people.

1) In what way could it be said that it was to the whites' benefit that they keep the black people down?

2) How much of the oppression was pure racism and how much was it due to fear? What did the white man fear?

3) In what way could it be said the equality between races has benefited society?

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