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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 is the essay contest supposed to be about?
(a) An essay on the person's life.
(b) An essay on how the writer would do away with the caucasian race.
(c) An essay on how the writer would improve life for the negro race.
(d) An essay on what the writer wanted to do when they have grown up.

2. What do Lucille and Biff both agree on?
(a) They both need to get away for a while.
(b) They are going to raise Baby together.
(c) They are going to make a lot of money.
(d) They are never going to marry again.

3. What was on the written on the card that Mr. Singer gave Jake Blount?
(a) His name address and phone number.
(b) His name and an explanation that he is deaf-mute and read lips.
(c) An address of a local AA meeting.
(d) The address where Jake could get a room.

4. What does Willie tell Biff Brannon happened to Jake Blount after he left the cafe?
(a) Jake was fighting with the police.
(b) Jake was beating his fists against a wall.
(c) Jake had been arrested for fighting.
(d) Jake was in a fight with two white men.

5. Where does Singer move?
(a) He rents a room at the YMCA.
(b) He rents a place in a dilapidated boarding house.
(c) He moves to an apartment above the jewelry store where he works.
(d) He moves to a nice apartment above the New York Cafe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Willie goes to trial?

2. What does Jake tell Mr. Singer that he had once done to his hand?

3. What did Mick want to do when she was standing with her arms spread out like wings?

4. What does Portia tell her father about Willie?

5. What does Lucille tell Biff not to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused the riot at the Sunny Dixie Show?

2. What had not changed about Mick Kelly on the evening of August 21, 1939?

3. What had changed about Mick Kelly as she sat in the restaurant on the evening of August 21, 1939?

4. After living without his friend for over a year, why did the death of the other man push Mister Singer to suicide?

5. What happens to Harry and Mick when they go on their swimming trip?

6. How does Jake Blount react when he realizes Mister Singer was deaf and mute?

7. In what ways do Portia and her father differ in their reaction to Willie's punishment in prison and the loss of his feet?

8. Why did Doctor Copeland have problems choosing the essay contest winner?

9. What three things does Antonapoulos like to do most?

10. What generally goes on inside Mick Kelly's head?

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