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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through This Morning, This Evening, So Soon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gabriel's wife instruct John to pick up amidst Gabriel's rage?
(a) Gabriel's lunch pail.
(b) A baseball bat.
(c) A hammer.
(d) A knife.

2. Who does Peter have dinner with after arguing with Jules in Previous Conditions?
(a) Eva.
(b) Iva.
(c) Ira.
(d) Ida.

3. What does the brother become distracted by when he goes to play with his friends across the street?
(a) A drawing of a bird.
(b) A drawing of a ship.
(c) A drawing of a treehouse.
(d) A drawing of a locomotive.

4. What exists across the street from the Grimes family?
(a) A cave.
(b) A treehouse.
(c) A garden.
(d) A rockpile.

5. Where does Sonny stay upon being released from prison?
(a) To the streets.
(b) To a halfway house.
(c) Back to selling and using drugs.
(d) To his brother's house in Harlem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes to intercept Gabriel as he comes home in The Rockpile?

2. How does Gabriel tend to act with towards children?

3. Where do the narrator and his friend go in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon?

4. How does the teacher feel when he goes to the jazz club with Sonny at the end of Sonny's Blues?

5. In The Man Child, what did Eric's father tell him he will inherit?

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