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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the pantryman insinuate that the chef did with the eggs?
(a) Throwing them at the pantryman.
(b) Stealing them for his wife.
(c) Taking them to keep for himself.
(d) Hiding them to blame the pantryman for taking them.

2. Where is Jake talking to the brown woman at the beginning of Chapter 20?
(a) By a white diner.
(b) By a white Presbyterian church.
(c) By a white general store.
(d) By a black Presbyterian church.

3. Where does the brown woman go with Jake?
(a) Aunt Hattie's.
(b) Jake's room.
(c) Her room.
(d) The Congo.

4. When does the fight against Yaller end in Chapter 19?
(a) When a policeman approaches.
(b) When Yaller is killed.
(c) When Yaller loses consciousness.
(d) When a bystander steps in.

5. Who does Ray's landlady give her room to?
(a) The lovely brown woman.
(b) Jake and Rose.
(c) Zeddy and Miss Curdy.
(d) Jerco and Rosalind.

6. Who wants Jake to move to a different building?
(a) Ray.
(b) Madame Laura.
(c) The lovely brown woman.
(d) Zeddy.

7. Where does Jake walk to at the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Queens.
(c) The Empire State Building.
(d) New Jersey.

8. Who is the brown woman afraid will fight Jake in Chapter 20?
(a) Her landlord.
(b) Zeddy.
(c) Ray.
(d) Her boyfriend.

9. What do the two elevator men threaten to Ma Lawton because of Jerco and Ms. Rosalind?
(a) They will move out.
(b) They want them evicted.
(c) They will not pay their rent.
(d) They want a bigger room.

10. What woman is friends with Jake at the party in Chapter 13?
(a) Aunt Hattie.
(b) The lovely brown woman.
(c) Madame Laura.
(d) Miss Curdy.

11. What does the reader learn about the railroad men's quarters in Chapter 11?
(a) They have become recently infested with rats.
(b) They are filthy.
(c) They fit four men in a room designed for one.
(d) There are no beds in them.

12. What does the fourth waiter say about the ice the chef is giving him?
(a) It's all broken.
(b) There's too much in each glass.
(c) It's not clean.
(d) It's half-melted.

13. What personality trait is the chef known for having?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) Kind-heartedness.
(d) Compassion.

14. When is Ms. Rosalind Whicher always seen wearing a particular item?
(a) Every Sunday.
(b) During the winter.
(c) During the summer.
(d) On Friday nights.

15. What does Ray dream he is after his night out with Jake?
(a) A hummingbird.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A train.
(d) The lovely brown woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jake like about American suits?

2. What is the brown woman's name?

3. According to the brown woman, who fights in a building courtyard for the right to be with a certain man?

4. Where does Chapter 13 take place?

5. What does the brown woman tell Jake she is NOT?

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