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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 Sue give her son before he leaves?

2. What does Smith accuse Smith of being?

3. Who does Sarah think her husband will kill?

4. Who does Deacon Smith not want to associate with?

5. Where is the mayor waiting for Taylor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sarah know Tom?

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

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

4. What does Sue worry about in Chapter 22?

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

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

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

8. What did Sue used to believe in?

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

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

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 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 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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