"The Woman in the Snow" & Rosa Parks Profile Questions

Grady's conflict is his struggle with realizing Eula Mae probably might really need help and his racist attitude (which he perceives is the correct way to think). This is an example of the____________________conflict.

• external conflict ----man v man
  
• internal conflict - man v himself
• external conflict ----man v nature
• external conflict ---man v society

The resolution of the story is a result of

• Eula getting on the bus and beginning to talk to Ray
  
• Eula learning of the Civil Rights Movement and then getting to the hospital and off the bus
  
• Eula getting revenge against Grady by haunting him and making him wreck his bus
  
• Eula listening to Ray talk about the good in the world now as opposed to how it was
  

The best evidence to support the idea that an important theme of this story is, "Through persistence we can accomplish our goals," is which of the following?

• Grady's refusal to let Eula on the bus
• Eula coming back as haint to hurt Grady
• Eula not giving up in the snow and freezing to death trying to get help for her child
  
• Eula's successful encounter with Ray after many failures
  

In the narrator's point of view is

• first person
• third-person limited
• third-person omniscient
• none of the above

Ray is symbolic of....................

• Hope given to others all the time
  
• Persistence as shown in the Civil Rights Movement
  
• Change after the Civil Rights Movement
  
• American people and their treatment of others
  

The best evidence to support the idea that an important theme of the story is, "Do unto others as you would have done unto you," would be which of the following?

• Grady's unwillingness to help Eula perhaps contributed to his demise
• Grady's boss's disgust at his referral to the Hall Street Express as "The Blackbird Express."
  
• Ray's willingness to overcome the fact that Eula was a ghost and get her the help she desperately needed
• Eula's unwillingness to give up regardless of her skin color and discrimination which existed in the society of her time
  

In "The Woman in the Snow," the author alludes to (makes reference to) the oral-tradition when she states that

• many cities had their own bus stories
  
• the story is better told as one sits around the fire on a cold night
  
• the story is a supernatural one
  
• feels strongly about progress in Civil Rights
  

Why is the woman with the baby so desperate to get on the bus?

• she going to a job interview
  
• she needs to talk to Grady
  
• she needs to get food for her baby
  
• she must take her sick infant to the hospital
  

What does the woman offer to give the driver for her fare?

• her wedding ring
  
• her watch
  
• her baby's silver rattle
• her shawl

Eula Mae reminds Ray Hammond of

• Rosa Parks
  
• his own mother
  
• a younger version of his wife, Carolyn
  
• a homeless person