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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 profession does the well-dressed black man think Griffin has?
(a) A shoeshine.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A priest.

2. When Griffin gets on the bus in Mississippi, where does he sit?
(a) Next to a white woman.
(b) Next to a white man.
(c) At the back of the bus.
(d) At the front of the bus.

3. After visiting with the young black man, whom does Griffin call on the pay phone?
(a) Sterling Williams.
(b) His wife.
(c) His doctor.
(d) George Levitan.

4. How do P.D. East's neighbors and friends treat him?
(a) They ignore him.
(b) They spit on him in public.
(c) They treat him with respect.
(d) They are friendly with him.

5. Why does Griffin decide to leave the church?
(a) He is overwhelmed with emotion.
(b) He realizes he is late to meeting with East.
(c) He finds what he is looking for.
(d) He realizes he would look bad standing in the church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Griffin stay during the first night of the sixth section of the book?

2. What does Griffin give the wife of the young black man?

3. In the fifth section of the book, what do many people warn Griffin about?

4. How does Griffin feel as he begins to pass back into white society?

5. How long is the break the bus driver gives his passengers on the bus to Mississippi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Christophe make Griffin nervous?

2. What do the blacks consider doing when the bus driver will not let them off the bus for the ten-minute break?

3. What does Griffin mean when he says he feels like a tenth-class citizen?

4. Why is Sterling upset when Griffin goes to see him at the shoeshine stand?

5. What attitude does Griffin feel most whites in Mobile take towards blacks?

6. How does the city of Montgomery change for Griffin as he becomes more and more white?

7. Why do the young black man's children think they are having a party?

8. Describe the home of the young black man that allows Griffin to spend the night in his house.

9. Why does P.D. East have to go to New Orleans?

10. How does Griffin arrive at the house of his friend, P.D. East?

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