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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Party charge Ross with?
(a) Anti-leadership tendencies
(b) Treachory
(c) A consumerist personality
(d) Adultery

2. What do the black Communists brand Wright as?
(a) An Uncle Tom
(b) A snob
(c) An intellectual
(d) A worker

3. What is Shorty's job at the optical shop?
(a) Toilet cleaner
(b) Floor mopper
(c) Lens maker
(d) Elevator man

4. Who joins Richard in Memphis?
(a) His brother and mother
(b) His grandmother
(c) His Uncle Tom
(d) His father

5. What does Richard say he feels like when a Jewish boy comes in to time how long it takes for him to clean?
(a) A child
(b) An idiot
(c) A slave
(d) Friendless

6. What does Richard refuse to accept from a white customer?
(a) Food
(b) Drink
(c) Money
(d) A present

7. What is the name of Richard's new landlady?
(a) Mrs. Moss
(b) Miss Taylor
(c) Jackie
(d) Bess

8. What reason does Richard give for leaving the South?
(a) To write
(b) To get married
(c) To be near his mother
(d) To have more freedom

9. What does Richard say he wants his bridge of words to connect with?
(a) The outside world
(b) The black world
(c) The inside world
(d) The white world

10. What parade does Richard try to be part of?
(a) St Patrick's Day
(b) Independence Day
(c) May Day
(d) St George Day

11. What is Mencken famous as?
(a) A journalist
(b) An essayist and critic
(c) A novelist
(d) A short story writer

12. What is Ross facing legal prosecution for?
(a) Rioting
(b) Attempted murder
(c) Smuggling
(d) Battery

13. What does Shorty allow a white man to do to him for a quarter?
(a) Kick him
(b) Kiss him
(c) Push him over
(d) Hit him

14. Where do the Hoffmans operate their store?
(a) The city center
(b) A whites only neighborhood
(c) A metro station
(d) A railway station

15. What is Shorty willing to do for money?
(a) Put himself in danger
(b) Demean himself
(c) Perform
(d) Anything

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does RIchard take a job?

2. What does kind of company does Richard join?

3. What is the name of the drug doctors use to sedate the dogs?

4. What does the black comrade tell Richard would bolster his credibility?

5. Who does Richard find is trying to oust him from his position at the Federal Negro Theater?

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