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//__Matching Section Answers__// Defense attorney Paul Reverend Ambrose Jefferson Grant Miss Emma Matthew Antoine Vivian Sheriff

__//Multiple Choice Answers//__ 1. D 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. C 11. D 12. A 13. B 14. A 15. C 16. D 17. B 18. C 19. B 20. A 21. B 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. C 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. D 32. C 33. C 34. D 35. D 36. B 37. A __//True and False Answers//__ 1. True, Grant hardly ever takes into account other people including his aunt, Vivian, and Jefferson at the beginning of the story. For example, Grant only would meet with Vivian in the story when he wanted encouragement or help with his problems, he never visited her just because he wanted to make her happy it was always about him. 2. True, At first Grant does not follow Matthew's views but after teaching he realizes he isn't changing anything, so he follows into Matthew's view about hating the teaching career and not having hope in change in the South's system. 3. True, he doesn't allow her and Grant to be together. He will not get a divorce unless he can see the kids every weekend, and he lives in Texas, which would require a move. 4.True, when Grant's aunt first meets Vivian she looks her up and down and questions her. Vivian then makes a comment that she doesnt think she likes her very much. 5. True, Often in the book Grant refers to his job as a waste of time since he doesn't think him teaching changes the kids. 6. True, Jefferson used to be one of Grants students. 7. False, In the story, Dr. Joseph explains that how after evaluating the students and their hygiene, he believes that they need to be more clean and changed are needed. 8. False, Vivian is the person who has to convince Grant not to run away. Grant has the dream of running away with Vivian and she always reminds him that they have a permanent job working as teachers of the community. 9. True, Throughout the book black people are expected to act as inferiors to the white people. You see this when Grant is forced to enter through the back door of Mr. Pichot's house, which is the entrance that the slaves used to have to use, and he must wait until the white people want to talk to him when he is at Mr. Pichot's house. Besides this example there is injustice to black men and that is why Jefferson is thrown in jail. 10. True, Grant wants to leave everything behind him and move away so that he can forget how white people treated him as their inferior and Vivian struggles to escape the past of her husband who she had issues with.

__//Short Answer//__ 1. Ms. Emma wanted Grant to teach Jefferson how to be a man before he died because then that way she would know that he finally became mature and could earn the respect of the men around him. She also didn't want him to be known by the white men as a hog who was only capable of farm work and wasn't able to think. 2. Yes Grant did change, the people most responsible for his change were either Jefferson or the reverend. It would be Jefferson because Jefferson taught Grant that him teaching people can change them and that it isn't a wast of time. The reverend because he taught Grant that even though he was smart in things like arithmetic and writing that didn't mean that he was smart. He showed him that intelligence is also an understanding of people. 3. Throughout the book we see Grants love for Vivian, but we also see that he does not give her much respect. For example in the book Grant never gets involved with Vivian's children at all and even suggests running away with Vivian without even considering the children. Another example is when Grant and Vivian are at Tante Lou's home and she has guests over and Grant offers to make coffee and him and his aunt get into an argument about who will make the coffee and then Vivian tries to stop Grant and he ignores her saying "Just be quiet." This shows he does not have much respect for her and does not listen to her views. 4. At first Grant does not want to help Jefferson not because he doesn't have the ability to help but because he feels there is no point. Grant even says about Jefferson," He's dead now. And I can't raise the dead." He feels there is no hope in breaking the system but making Jefferson a man and changing Jefferson's views. Also, Grant is afraid of trying to change Jefferson and then failing by not being able to. Grant obtained this view from his teacher Matthew Antoine. Matthew Antoine taught him that with all his effort, his students still will not learn anything and be able to change the racist system in the South so Grant feels he cannot change Jefferson. 5. Grant mentions multiple times that he wants to leave and that he wants to get out of where he is. He says this because he is unhappy with his job and wants to be with Vivian. The best way he thinks for this to occur is to leave and get out of where he is now. However, the helping of Jefferson becoming a man is what is keeping him back. Although he doesn't seem to want to help as the process goes on he does want to help Jefferson before his execution. 6. The cycle that Jefferson wants to break is the cycle that "black men have failed to their women since the time of slavery." They either stay in the South and are broken or leave the women and children. Everytime a male is born the family hopes that the same thing won't occur and they will be able to change the cycle. However, the cycle never seems to change because it is a heavy burden so they must also run away or leave their burdens behind. Miss Emma wishes for Jefferson to change this cycle and so she can be able to call him and show people that he really is a man. Also, Grant's aunt wishes that he would change the cylce because he can give someone something that "neither a husband, a father, or a grandfater ever did" and she wants to hold on to that. This way there is a man out there that will "break the cycle." 7. During the Christmas program, Grant realizes many things. Not only about the program but about life itself. While sitting in the audience, watching the children on stage, Grant comes to the answer that nothing changes in the society. Such as the Christmas program, every year the songs never change. It's always the same thing over and over. This relates to the society and Jefferson's problem. Nothing will ever change the society to believe that Jefferson is innocent. There is nothing that can be done to prevent his death. 8. In the end of the story, Grants task was accomplished. Jefferson died not a hog, but a man and it was all because of Grant. Grant may has believed that his visits were not making a change, but they were. Jefferson's attitude also changed from the beginning of the story to the end. He was more open to them and changed. Grant helped to make him into a man, just as Mrs. Emma wanted him to be. //__Extended Response__// 1. Reverend Ambrose calls Grant an uneducated person many times because Grant, even though he felt he was smart really wasn't and need a wake up call. Grant thought he was smart because he went to college and was a teacher but didn't realize he wasn't because there's more to what you learn then just arithmetic and reading. The reverend criticized Grant for not learning about people and how they act and how to treat people in college. The reverend then states how Grant is unintelligent and how he is smart because he understands people while Grant does not. 2. There were many reasons that Miss Emma wanted Jefferson to become a man before the execution. At this point in time black men were often called "hogs", which Jefferson is often referred to in the novel. Miss Emma did not want Jefferson being executed and being considered a hog. This way she had Grant teach him and the reverend help to teach him morals and become closer to God. Also, Miss Emma wanted Jefferson to prove that the "cycle" could truely be broken. By stating this she wanted to prove to the people that Jefferson was truely considered a man by the end of the process. At the end of the novel Paul, the deputy states that Jefferson was "the strongest man in the room" when he was to be executed. Jefferson's last words were "Tell Nannan I walked". These were all examples of how he really did become a man through the process and could no longer be considered a "hog". Through the time spent with Grant, Jefferson was able to find himself and find that even though he didn't deserve the penalty that he recieved he was a man and took it.