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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18, 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Jones' co-workers joke about in Chapter 15?
(a) Wanting white women.
(b) White men dancing.
(c) Picking cotton.
(d) Slavery.

2. What does Mrs. Harrison think it is important to keep moving forward?
(a) Education for all.
(b) Integration with the whites.
(c) The civil rights movement.
(d) Segregation.

3. What does Jones think will happen no matter what he does?
(a) He is going to get fired.
(b) He is going to go to prison.
(c) He is going to be controlled by white people.
(d) He going to have to conform.

4. Who does Jones prepare to talk to at the end of Chapter 12?
(a) Alice.
(b) The union steward.
(c) The manager.
(d) Madge.

5. Who does Madge threaten to call as Jones leaves?
(a) The Klu-Klux-Klan.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The police.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madge accuse Jones of?

2. What are Madge and Jones interrupted by?

3. What city did the narrator move to in 1941?

4. What part of New York did Himes' two fictional policeman come from?

5. Why does Elsie think God made colored people different from whites?

(see the answer key)

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