This question requires candidates to give a description of the narrator’s experience with Kimbro. Most candidates merely narrated the portion of the novel.

Candidates were expected to discuss:

• The effects of racial prejudice on black Americans as a major theme in the novel
• Character identification of Kimbro and the narrator.
• Meeting Kimbro: the narrator presents himself for a job at Liberty Paints and is assigned to work under Kimbro.  The narrator is made uneasy by Kimbro’s ‘nasty mood.’
• The narrator’s mistake on the job and his removal from Kimbro’s department.
• Apparent second chance: Kimbro seems to relent and guides the narrator afresh. The narrator applies his intuition, and Kimbro approves. The paint is loaded off, to the narrator’s confusion. The narrator is dismissed from Kimbro’s department, nevertheless.

Candidates’ performance was above average.