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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 Chief Bruden greet Taylor as?

2. What does Taylor say he saw while he was being whipped?

3. What party is Booker a member of?

4. Why does Sue not trust Booker?

5. What are Sue's last words?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Taylor imagine having the strength to do in Chapter 19?

2. What does Sue see when she first gains consciousness?

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

4. What does Sarah think about on the hillside?

5. How does Sarah know Tom?

6. What does Taylor instruct his wife to do in Chapter 18?

7. How do the men break Johnny's knees?

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

9. How does Sarah stop her baby from crying in Chapter 14?

10. What does Sue worry about in Chapter 22?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What rules did the Southern whites enforce on the blacks? How did they blacks eventually manage to overturn such laws? How important were people like Richard Wright in highlighting the stupidity of such rules?

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