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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. Where did Harriet and Jimboy go?

2. When he reached school, the teacher did what?

3. What did Sandy find out when he returned home?

4. In "School", the summer ends and Sandy has to go back to school to the ________ grade, which was integrated.

5. At the beginning of the story, what is Aunt Hager desperately trying to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jimboy returning home? Does Aunt Hager believe him? Why or why not?

2. What are Hager's religious beliefs? What does Harriet think about these beliefs?

3. What did Sandy do with his collection plate money? Why did he do this?

4. How does the reader know that Harriet has lived a difficult life since she left home?

5. What happened to Crowville? Why did this happen?

6. How does Annjee defend her decision to go to Detroit?

7. Why did many black people have to leave Stanton?

8. How does Annjee react when Jimboy comes home and ignores her and her cooking? Should she react this way? Why or why not?

9. Describe the relationship between Harriet and Hager.

10. What is the purpose of "White Folks?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sandy is a good student.

Part 1) Describe Sandy's education throughout this book. Is it adequate? Why or why not? Should he have been placed in an integrated school, even though he was still segregated in many ways from his white classmates? Explain.

Part 2) Does segregation still exist today? Explain. Are all Americans given equal chances at receiving an adequate education today? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does Sandy's education compare to your own? How does Sandy's view of education compare to your own? How does Aunt Hager's, Tempy's, Sandy's, and Harriet's view of education impact you? Do you put as much emphasis on getting a good education? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

A carnival and revival take place on the same day only a half mile apart.

Part 1) Describe the events surrounding this carnival and the revival. Why has the author put both of these events on the same day near each other? What does this reveal about the characters and the culture at the time?

Part 2) How might people act today if there were both a carnival and church revival on the same day? Would the reaction be the same? Why or why not?

Part 3) How are these two events similar? How are they different? What do they have to say about how people spend their leisure time? What does it also say about one's priorities in life?

Essay Topic 3

Most of the characters in this story are women.

Part 1) Why might the author have made most of the characters women? What generalization can you make about these women? What generalization can you make about the men in the story? How do the women compare to the men? What does this reveal about the culture of the time and the author?

Part 2) What might this story have been like if most of the characters were men? Would it be different? Why or why not? Why has the author put an importance and an emphasis on women, especially considering the author is a man?

Part 3) Compare these women to the women in your own life. How are they similar? How are they different? What might account for these similarities and differences? Although most of the characters are women, can men relate to these characters? Why or why not?

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