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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 Eric doing at the beginning of The Man Child?

2. Who's birthday does the outing fall close to this year?

3. In The Rockpile, what happens after the boy is hit in the head?

4. What does Peter's dinner date hit him affectionately with?

5. Who begins to feel like a sinner in The Outing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ida's relationship with her husband.

2. Describe why Eric's mother has been in the hospital.

3. In The Outing, what does the church do every 4th of July and why?

4. What happens when Roy is at the rockpile?

5. What does Roy tell John he's going to do one day?

6. Describe what the Grimes boys do on Saturdays.

7. Why does Gabriel turn his anger from Roy to John?

8. Who is David in The Outing?

9. Describe what Previous Condition is about.

10. Why is Peter nervous?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and detail how the setting of Previous Condition is particularly important to the events that take place in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Eric's father to his best friend, Jamie, from The Man Child.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and explain how the narrator in This Morning, This Evening, So Soon is a reflection of Baldwin's own expatriate move to Paris during a time when blacks were treated very poorly in America.

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