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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 Johnny say he does believe in?

2. What does the sheriff threaten to do to Johnny?

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

4. What does Sarah think she is lucky to have?

5. What are the name of the two communists Taylor has to meet?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What idea does Sue have in Chapter 25?

6. What does Sue worry about in Chapter 22?

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

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

9. Why does Silas enter the room in a good mood in this chapter?

10. What problems does Sue have with Booker in Chapter 24?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

All the stories in the book are written in the third person. Why do you think Wright chose to write in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the book would change if it were written in the first person?

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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