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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What depresses Wright about Chicago?
(a) The traffic
(b) The racism
(c) The industrial landscape
(d) The rudeness of the people

2. What reason does Shorty give for not joining Richard?
(a) He likes the South
(b) He earns a lot of money
(c) He has too many responibilities
(d) He is lazy

3. Who throws Richard out of the May Day parade?
(a) Two black Communists
(b) Security guards
(c) Two white Communists
(d) The mayor

4. What does Yound accuse Swann of being?
(a) A police collaborator
(b) A government spy
(c) A journalist
(d) A Fascist

5. What does kind of company does Richard join?
(a) A optics company
(b) An insurance agency
(c) A television company
(d) A phone company

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Party charge Ross with?

2. What role does Richard get at the Federal Relief Theater?

3. Who does Richard write biographical sketches for?

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

5. Who is the only person among Richard's family in Chicago who does not fall ill?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the white employers at the optical factory arrange a boxing match between Richard and Harrison?

2. Why do the black Communists mock Richard?

3. In what way does Richard's situation take a turn for the worse when the Great Depression hits America?

4. Why does Bill terrify Richard?

5. How does Richard borrow books from the white library?

6. Why does Richard find Chicago so startling?

7. What problems does Richard face as publicity agent for the Federal Negro Theater?

8. How do the white man and black man use Richard to help them move the liquor?

9. Why does Richard want to read H.L Mencken?

10. Why does Shorty amuse Richard?

(see the answer keys)

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