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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Black-No-More will be shutting down all but how many of its sanitariums in Chapter 10?

2. Rufus Kretin speaks with Matthew in Chapter 8 about stopping what?

3. In Chapter 10, a mob sets fire to a lying-in hospital, burning to death a dozen babies where?

4. Who do the Knights of Nordica want to nominate for the Democratic candidate for Presidency in Chapter 10?

5. Radical labor organizers from where go to visit the small mill town out of concern for the ending strike in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is notable about the broadcasting company name in Chapter 9?

2. What does Dr. Buggerie inform Snobbcraft about the data in Chapter 11?

3. Why does Rufus Kretin meet with Matthew in Chapter 8?

4. How many sanitariums are still running in Chapter 10? What are lying-in hospitals developed for?

5. What does Dr. Buggerie promise to produce to Arthur Snobbcraft in Chapter 9?

6. How are the opposing Presidential candidates presented in Chapter 10?

7. What does Buggerie reveal about Snobbcraft's ancestry in Chapter 11? What of the other candidates?

8. What word does Matthew receive of a strike in Chapter 7? Where does he go?

9. What can be ascertained by Matthew's jealousy of Bunny in Chapter 12?

10. Who is nominated in Chapter 10 for the Democratic candidate for the Presidency?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss America's racial history and the South during the 1930s. What was life like for African Americans in the South? How was it different in the North?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Matthew's experiences in Atlanta as a white man in the 1930s. How does this setting differ from Harlem? What dissatisfies Matthew about white society? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Define and discuss the literary term "antihero." How does this term apply to the character of Max Disher?

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