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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) A consumerist personality
(b) Anti-leadership tendencies
(c) Treachory
(d) Adultery
2. What depresses Wright about Chicago?
(a) The traffic
(b) The rudeness of the people
(c) The industrial landscape
(d) The racism
3. Who is the only person among Richard's family in Chicago who does not fall ill?
(a) Richard
(b) Ellie
(c) Maggie
(d) Alan
4. What is the name of Richard's new landlady?
(a) Jackie
(b) Bess
(c) Miss Taylor
(d) Mrs. Moss
5. What is Ross facing legal prosecution for?
(a) Rioting
(b) Battery
(c) Attempted murder
(d) Smuggling
6. What city does Richard arrive at in this chapter?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) Memphis
(c) New York
(d) Chicago
7. Whose work does Wright want to read?
(a) Faulkner's
(b) Twain's
(c) Mencken's
(d) Baldwin's
8. What is the name of the magazine H. L. Mencken edits?
(a) Lets Love
(b) American Mercury
(c) American Buffalo
(d) Where the Buffalo Roam
9. Who throws Richard out of the May Day parade?
(a) The mayor
(b) Two black Communists
(c) Two white Communists
(d) Security guards
10. What does Shorty allow a white man to do to him for a quarter?
(a) Kick him
(b) Hit him
(c) Kiss him
(d) Push him over
11. Where do the Hoffmans operate their store?
(a) A whites only neighborhood
(b) A railway station
(c) A metro station
(d) The city center
12. What did Martin Garvey advocate for black Americans?
(a) War
(b) A move to Europe
(c) A return to Africa
(d) Revolution
13. What does Richard say the dogs do silently when they regain consciousness?
(a) Bark
(b) Whine
(c) Eat
(d) Howl
14. Where does RIchard take a job?
(a) A cake shop
(b) A cafe
(c) An optical shop
(d) A bomb factory
15. What does the black comrade tell Richard would bolster his credibility?
(a) A confrontation with the police
(b) Drive a truck
(c) A white mistress
(d) A night on the town
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Bill's favorite phrase?
2. Who does the editorial attack?
3. What is Wright fearful of doing at work?
4. What reason does Richard give for leaving the South?
5. What does Richard need to do to to get the position at the post office?
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