View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flies towards and hits the brother while he plays across the street from the Grimes' apartment?

2. How long has Peter had a relationship with his dinner date in Previous Conditions?

3. What race does Peter insist receives the worst discrimination?

4. What does Gabriel demand to know from his wife?

5. In The Outing, what does Sylvia ask David?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Peter behaves at the restaurant with Ida in Previous Condition.

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

3. In Previous Condition, what does Peter do at the end of the story?

4. Describe Peter in Previous Condition.

5. What happens to Eric at the end of The Man Child?

6. Who is Sylvia?

7. In The Outing, why does Gabriel get angry and feel powerless?

8. Describe what the Grimes boys do on Saturdays.

9. What does Peter realize in Harlem?

10. What is Eric doing when Jamie comes up to him at the end of The Man Child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and explain what Baldwin suggests about a black woman's personal needs and also her placement in society in his story Come Out the Wilderness.

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss why the narrator in This Morning, This Evening So Soon fears his son's move to America. What happened to the narrator that personally makes him feel such fear for his child?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss how Jesse's childhood memory from when he was 8 years old enabled a connection that murdering someone of black race will bring supreme personal desire and intimacy.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 643 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample