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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule?
(a) Romantic comedy.
(b) Biography.
(c) Satire.
(d) Allegory.

3. There were early rumors about whose deceptive business practices in the novel?
(a) Bunny Brown.
(b) Chuck Foster's.
(c) Hank Johnson's.
(d) Dr. Junius Crookman.

4. 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.

5. What holiday is it in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) New Year's Eve.
(b) Halloween.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doorkeeper doesn't recognize Max and tells him to go away in Chapter 2?

2. By what does Bunny recognize Max in Chapter 2?

3. What black doctor has found a way to turn a black person white in the novel?

4. Where does Bunny Brown work in the beginning of the novel?

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

(see the answer key)

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