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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reporter is waiting in the cab after Max leaves the sanitarium in Chapter 2?
(a) Sybil Smith.
(b) Hank Johnson.
(c) Bunny Brown.
(d) Chuck Foster.

2. What is Max Disher's profession in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Dentist.
(b) Bartender.
(c) Insurance agent.
(d) Prison guard.

3. How did Hank Johnson work his way up in New York?
(a) The Numbers racket.
(b) Mixing drinks.
(c) Cutting hair.
(d) The Wall Street game.

4. Black residents in New York are moving out of what neighborhood in Chapter 3?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Harlem.
(d) The Upper East Side.

5. What refers to any White person whose native language is English and whose cultural affiliations are those common to Britain and the U.S.?
(a) Latino.
(b) Aryan.
(c) Anglo-Saxon.
(d) Protestant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?

2. What predominantly black area of town in Atlanta does Matthew occasional go to, but no one will speak to him there because he is white in Chapter 4?

3. When was the second Ku Klux Klan established?

4. What street are Max and the reporter walking down when he is shocked at the fact that no one pays attention to him or thinks it odd that he is with a white woman in Chapter 2?

5. Where do Bunny and Max meet in the beginning of Chapter 1?

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