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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 Norwood come in and order Bert to do?

2. Where do Sally and Bert go when he pulls up outside?

3. Who is Sam?

4. What do Cora and Bert begin to do, after he tells her this news?

5. What does Bert once accidentally do when he is a young boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Bert know will be coming? What are his plans?

2. What do Cora and William discuss?

3. What is Sam doing at the beginning of the scene?

4. How does Bert respond to what Cora tells him?

5. What does Cora do after William leaves?

6. What does William try to do one more time? What is Cora's response?

7. What sparks an argument between Bert and Norwood?

8. How does the Colonel respond to Sam's question? What does Sam say about Bert? What stops the Colonel from fully processing what Sam has said to him?

9. Why is Sam upset and scared?

10. What happens as Talbot enters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Two white men find Norwood dead.

Part 1) Who are these two men? Why do they assume Bert is the killer? If they had not assumed Bert was the killer, who might they have believed killed Norwood? Explain.

Part 2) Are you surprised by their response to Norwood's killing? Why or why not?

Part 3) If they had not suspected Bert as the killer, would the outcome have turned out any differently? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The two men in the center of the conflict in this play are gone.

Part 1) How do their deaths affect or will affect the other characters in this play? Explain.

Part 2) What is the author's purpose for their deaths?

Part 3) Compare and contrast the audience members' thoughts about these deaths in the 1930s and today. What accounts for the similarities and differences?

Essay Topic 3

Higgins chides Norwood for keeping a black mistress like a wife.

Part 1) Why does Norwood keep Cora in his home like a wife? How does this affect Cora?

Part 2) Does Higgins' attitude towards Norwood's behavior reflect the views of other white people in town? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does Norwood respond to Higgins' chiding? Why does he respond this way? What are your thoughts on his relationship with Cora?

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