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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 Right think they should do to Petis?

2. What kind of vegetable does Socrates prepare to go with the rooster?

3. What kind of knife does Daryll have?

4. Where does Wilfred like to rob people?

5. What kind of clothes does Wilfred say he dresses up in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Corina upset with her husband, Howard?

2. Where does Socrates find Billy?

3. What does Socrates say he thinks about killing?

4. How does Socrates view Darryl?

5. Why does Iula frighten Socrates?

6. What does Socrates dream about in this chapter?

7. Why does Socrates think that Howard should be angry at what he said to Corina about him?

8. What is Wilfred's job?

9. Why does Socrates go out into the alleyway?

10. How do the men's views differ on how to deal with Petis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mosley writes ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED in the third person. Why do you think Mosley chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if Mosley wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the time period? How does Mosley use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 3

Mosely wrote ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED in 1997. Choose one of the following options and discuss how African Americans' lives have improved since then.

1) Living conditions.

2) Representation in the media.

3) Employment.

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