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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 is Sue doing when she hears a knock at the door?

2. Why does Taylor not enter the white church?

3. What does Sue think weakened her?

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

5. What does Sue tell the Sheriff to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sue worry about in Chapter 22?

3. What does Taylor say about his past in Chapter 17?

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

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

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

7. What did Sue used to believe in?

8. How does Sarah know Tom?

9. Why does Silas get angry in Chapter 15?

10. What does Taylor say in his speech?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the differences between the Jim Crow system and slavery.

1) What were the differences between the Jim Crow system and slavery?

2) In what way does Wright present the Jim Crow system as hypocritical and no better than slavery?

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