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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the second Ku Klux Klan established?
(a) Alabama.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Florida.
(d) Georgia.

2. Who is losing all of the business at her hair salon in Chapter 3?
(a) Madame Sisseretta Blandish.
(b) Helen Givens.
(c) Mrs. Johnson.
(d) Mrs. Givens.

3. How much money does the reporter in the cab offer Max for his story in Chapter 2?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $500.
(c) $2,500.
(d) $700.

4. What kind of art does Dr. Crookman collect?
(a) African.
(b) Cubist.
(c) Modernist.
(d) Renaissance.

5. What does Max offer to pay for Bunny in Chapter 2?
(a) A train ticket
(b) His whitening procedure.
(c) A hotel room.
(d) A traffic citation.

6. What refers to an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence?
(a) Clinic.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Asylum.
(d) Sanitarium.

7. What is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labor and private property?
(a) Authoritarianism.
(b) Poletarianism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitolism.

8. Where does Max go to hear the doctor who can turn black people white speak in Chapter 1?
(a) Tabitha Stevens Hotel.
(b) Phyllis Wheatley Hotel.
(c) Mavis Thompson Hotel.
(d) Gertrude Beatty Hotel.

9. Who in the novel had been on a Carolina chain gang for two years?
(a) Bunny Brown.
(b) Hank Johnson.
(c) Henry Givens.
(d) Junius Crookman.

10. Where do Bunny and Max meet in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The Honky Tonk Club.
(b) Woodrow's Diner.
(c) The Jazz Cellar.
(d) The Silver Turtle.

11. What is a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule?
(a) Romantic comedy.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Satire.
(d) Biography.

12. In Chapter 3, Dr. Crookman is tired from all the responsibilities of his new business but believes it will solve what?
(a) The "Big problem."
(b) The "White problem."
(c) The "Race problem."
(d) The "Negro problem."

13. What was passed by the Congress of the United States shortly after the American Civil War helping to protect the voting rights of African-Americans?
(a) The Race Acts.
(b) The Power Acts.
(c) The Force Acts.
(d) The Confederate Acts.

14. Where does Max go with the reporter after dinner in Chapter 2?
(a) A train station.
(b) A bar.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A cabaret.

15. Who runs the The National Social Equality League?
(a) Dr. Joseph Bonds.
(b) Walter Williams.
(c) Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard.
(d) Santop Licorice.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 6, the Knights of Nordica are celebrating the gaining of how many members?

2. One editorialist in Chapter 3 is particularly angry that the offspring of those who become white will what?

3. For what paper does the reporter work who waits for Max in his cab outside the sanitarium in Chapter 2?

4. What title does Matthew hold in the Knights of Nordica in Chapter 6?

5. What year is it in the beginning of Chapter 1?

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