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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Griffin decide to leave the church?
(a) He finds what he is looking for.
(b) He is overwhelmed with emotion.
(c) He realizes he would look bad standing in the church.
(d) He realizes he is late to meeting with East.

2. What do the children of the young black man ask Griffin?
(a) They ask him about his accent.
(b) They ask him about his money.
(c) They ask him about his own children.
(d) They ask him where he is from.

3. After visiting with the young black man, whom does Griffin call on the pay phone?
(a) Sterling Williams.
(b) George Levitan.
(c) His wife.
(d) His doctor.

4. Where does the well-dressed black man say his mother is from?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Egypt.
(c) France.
(d) Portugal.

5. After the man who picks him up as a hitchhiker drops Griffin off, how does he immediately continue his travels?
(a) He is picked up by another hitchhiker.
(b) He gets on a train.
(c) He walks.
(d) He takes a bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Griffin travel away from Montgomery?

2. What group of people does Griffin notice is particularly good at giving the hate stare?

3. According to Griffin, why do white men give him rides as a hitchhiker?

4. What is the name of the well-dressed black man who gets on the bus at one of its stops?

5. Which of these best describes where the well-dressed black man sits on the bus?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Griffin pass back into white society?

2. Why does Griffin decide to go to Mississippi?

3. Describe what Griffin sees on the bathroom wall of the bus station.

4. How does Griffin arrive at the house of his friend, P.D. East?

5. What does Griffin do as he leaves the young black man's house?

6. How does the city of Montgomery change for Griffin as he becomes more and more white?

7. How does the attendant at the custard stand act toward Griffin when Griffin asks to use a restroom?

8. Why does Christophe make Griffin nervous?

9. What is once piece of advice that Bill Williams gives Griffin?

10. Explain why Griffin thinks white men pick him up while he is hitchhiking.

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