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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. in "Get Well Soon" what is the narrator's boyfriend disguised as?

2. How long does Amber talk on the phone to the wrong number caller?

3. Where does the couple stay in "First Night"?

4. What does the narrator explore after she cannot go to sleep in "The Diary"?

5. What does the narrator dream about in "Harlem Blues"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bridget and Drake solve their problems in "A Time For Change"?

2. What happens to the narrator in "The Airport" after she arrives back home from Jamaica?

3. What is the result of the piano player and the narrator's night alone in "Harlem Blues"?

4. How does "Be My Valentine" end?

5. Describe how Yardley and Clarence meet in "Be My Valentine".

6. Describe the narrator and Norman's relationship in "The Godfather".

7. In "A Time For Change" what is Bridget upset with her husband Drake about?

8. In "The Seduction" where does the narrator seduce her boyfriend into going and how?

9. What happens in "The Barbershop"?

10. Why is it so easy for the narrator of "Harlem Blues" to sing the blues?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and explain how "The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" advocates a sexual revolution and Zane's idea that "if we can free our bodies, then we can free our minds".

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss "The Diary" and what Zane is suggesting about time and age in relationship to love and intimacy.

Essay Topic 3

Describe and explain how the content of "The Valley of the Freaks" parallels the content of "The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" in that both increase their sexually inappropriate content.

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