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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. Which of the following sobriquets does the narrator’s father carry in prison?
2. Which of the following is the ratio of Black city residents the narrator notes have been imprisoned in Liberia?
3. Which of the following does the narrator note his grandfather wore?
4. Which of the following does the narrator note had adopted Supercargo?
5. At which of the following intersections is the narrator obliged to stand for trial by ordeal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does the narrator give for liking the Mall of the Seven Myrtles?
2. What message does Jo Jo leave for the narrator when he leaves?
3. How does the narrator describe Booker T. Elementary when he follows Nigel there?
4. What reasons does the narrator give for disliking Araminta?
5. What image does the narrator report BEG uses to conceive of the United States?
6. What does the narrator expect to hear from his father when he visits him in prison?
7. What does the narrator’s grandfather report as the effect when “those problems done piled up on me” (137)?
8. What reason does the narrator give for beginning to learn American Sign Language?
9. How does the narrator describe his preferred workspace in the wake of Penny’s death?
10. How is “the original ADZE” described (218)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sources attest to the presence of We Cast a Shadow on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of Ruffin’s novel? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator muses that “It sometimes felt like we [the narrator and Jo Jo] were the only people in the world who experienced the whiplash and loss of those years, because no one else talked about that era. Not that Jo Jo and I did” (82). What similar era exists in your life? What makes it similar? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the significance of Penny’s name.
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