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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The nurse claims that the dentist will not see any more patients until what time?
2. What color of overcoat does the little boy have on that James sees while he and Mama walk away from the dentist's office?
3. What does Mama have to eat at the cafe?
4. When James and Mama get back to the dentist's office, what can't they do?
5. Who enters the waiting room at the beginning of Chapter 9?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the story, The Sky is Gray, James and his mother are almost always together. Describe Octavia and James' relationship. Would you consider their relationship to be a normal mother/son connection? Why or why not? How does James feel about his mother? How does Octavia feel about her son? Why doesn't Octavia express her love for James and do you think she really loves him?
Essay Topic 2
The story, The Sky is Gray takes place during about a day of James' life. Do you feel connected at all with James after only "knowing" him for a day? If so, how and why? If not, why not? Why do you think the author chose to only have the story cover one day of James' life? Was the story effective in the way it was told? Was time an important factor in the story or did it not matter that the story spans the duration of only one day?
Essay Topic 3
In the story, The Sky is Gray, Mama takes James into a cafe to get warm and buy some food. After Mama and James get their food and start to eat, the man in the cafe asks Mama to dance. Mama ends up throwing the man against the wall. Why do you think Mama agreed to dance with the man when obviously she didn't want to? Why didn't Mama let James jump in to help her with the man? Why do you think Mama threw the man up against the wall? Why do you think the man asked Mama to dance in the first place?
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