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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 the title of the short story that Richard writes?
2. How does Richard help Granny to request money from her relatives?
3. What does Richard's boss offer him in the storeroom?
4. What information that Richard gives Uncle Tom does Uncle Tom say is not accurate?
5. Where does Richard work the following summer?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Richard fight his Uncle Tom?
2. How does Richard's ability to read and write help him in Chapter 3?
3. Why does Richard dislike his job with the white family?
4. Why does Richard develop a bitter association between his father and hunger?
5. What mistake does Granny make at the end of Chapter 4?
6. Why does Richard leave his job in the sawmill?
7. What happens when Richard gets a flat tire on his bicycle?
8. What does Richard do after he has read his speech at graduation?
9. Why does Richard threaten Addie with a knife in Chapter 4?
10. Why does Richard continue working for the second white family, even though he dislikes them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Pick one of the following characters and examine his/her influence on molding Richard's character.
1) Richard's mother
2) Richard's father
3) Richard's grandmother
4) Aunt Maggie
5) Alan
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
Compare the differences between the North and the South.
1) How did whites treat blacks differently in the South than they did in the North?
2) Why did black people stay in the South when people viewed it as so racist?
3) Why does Richard find life in the North just as unsatisfactory as he found life in the South?
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