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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. What is the hot, new cabaret in Harlem, according to Chapter 4?

2. How much does Jake agree to pay for companionship in Chapter 2?

3. Why do Zeddy's friends laugh at him when he visits them?

4. What book does Jake find a waiter reading in Chapter 10?

5. Who takes Jake and Zeddy to Susy's place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the financial arrangement between Jake and the brown woman in Chapter 2? What does Jake later find in his pocket?

2. How does the relationship between Zeddy and Susy end?

3. Who is Rose? How does she meet Jake?

4. What does Zeddy announce when he returns to Harlem? What does he say about Susy?

5. What are the three cabarets mentioned in Chapter 4? What is said about them?

6. What job does Zeddy get Jake? What does Jake find out about this job?

7. What happens between Nije and Zeddy at the buffet flat where Jake gambles?

8. What does Miss Curdy think of Jake? How does he react?

9. What happens while Jake is at the Baltimore in Chapter 4?

10. Describe Lavinia Curdy. What is her relationship with Susy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast blacks and Irish in Home to Harlem, focusing on how they are treated by whites.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of the different settings in Home to Harlem. How is setting important to the story? How is setting important to Jake?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the speakeasy, why they exist in Home to Harlem, and how they affect the events of the story.

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