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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. Where do Richard and his friend find bootleg liquor?
(a) Under floorboards
(b) Floating on the water
(c) In a sand pit
(d) In a patch of weeds

2. Who is the only person among Richard's family in Chicago who does not fall ill?
(a) Alan
(b) Ellie
(c) Richard
(d) Maggie

3. What event causes Richard to lose a lot of his hours at the post office?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) The Second World War
(c) The Great Depression
(d) The First World War

4. What character working in the hospital basement scares Richard?
(a) Jock
(b) Cooke
(c) Bill
(d) Brand

5. What does the black comrade tell Richard would bolster his credibility?
(a) A night on the town
(b) A white mistress
(c) Drive a truck
(d) A confrontation with the police

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two characters go to Chicago first?

2. What reason does Richard give for leaving the South?

3. What depresses Wright about Chicago?

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

5. Where does Richard work with restless boys?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Wright find in New York City?

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

3. Who was Marcus Garvey?

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

5. Why do the black Communists mock Richard?

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

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

8. Why don't Southern people like it when blacks move to Northern cities?

9. What happens when Richard joins the May Day parade?

10. Why do Richard's fellow comrades begins to shun him?

(see the answer keys)

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