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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What character working in the hospital basement scares Richard?
(a) Cooke
(b) Jock
(c) Brand
(d) Bill
2. Who does the editorial attack?
(a) William Faulkner
(b) Mark Twain
(c) H.L. Mencken
(d) James Dean
3. Where does Richard wait in line in this chapter?
(a) The post office
(b) The relief station
(c) The grocery store
(d) The paper store
4. What is Matther's nickname?
(a) Doctor
(b) Shorty
(c) Screw loose
(d) Professor
5. What does Richard tell his black comrade he does for a living?
(a) Sweeps roads
(b) Writes books
(c) Boxes
(d) Empties bins
6. What is Wright fearful of doing at work?
(a) Offending the whites
(b) Giving in to stealing
(c) Lying
(d) Making a mistake
7. What is the name of Richard's new landlady?
(a) Miss Taylor
(b) Jackie
(c) Mrs. Moss
(d) Bess
8. What style of poem does Wright write for the magazine?
(a) Free verse
(b) A haiku
(c) A sonnet
(d) A limerick
9. What do the black Communists brand Wright as?
(a) A snob
(b) A worker
(c) An intellectual
(d) An Uncle Tom
10. Who does Richard find is trying to oust him from his position at the Federal Negro Theater?
(a) The Fascists
(b) The Chicago mayor
(c) The American government
(d) The Communists
11. Who throws Richard out of the May Day parade?
(a) Two black Communists
(b) Two white Communists
(c) Security guards
(d) The mayor
12. What is Bill's favorite phrase?
(a) Hang em all
(b) Watch your back Jack
(c) Brain drain
(d) Let us all start over again
13. Where does Richard work with restless boys?
(a) South Side Boys' Club
(b) Gangland North
(c) West Side Boys' Club
(d) Happy Homes
14. What does Richard say he wants his bridge of words to connect with?
(a) The outside world
(b) The inside world
(c) The white world
(d) The black world
15. What is the name of Richard's foreman?
(a) Fin
(b) James
(c) Harry
(d) Olin
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Richard need to do to to get the position at the post office?
2. Where does Richard meet a young black man?
3. What does Richard say the dogs do silently when they regain consciousness?
4. What is Mencken famous as?
5. Where does RIchard take a job?
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