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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 does Griffin stay during the first night of the sixth section of the book?
(a) A hotel.
(b) He sleeps in a car.
(c) A Northern white man's house.
(d) A young black man's house.

2. At the start of the fourth section of the book, how much time has passed since Griffin became a black man?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Five days.
(c) Three days.
(d) One week.

3. How do P.D. East's neighbors and friends treat him?
(a) They are friendly with him.
(b) They ignore him.
(c) They treat him with respect.
(d) They spit on him in public.

4. What profession does the well-dressed black man think Griffin has?
(a) A journalist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A shoeshine.
(d) A priest.

5. What does the custard stand attendant refuse Griffin?
(a) An outhouse.
(b) A place to sit down.
(c) A paper napkin.
(d) Free water from the hose.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of the sixth section of the book, how does Griffin decide to leave Mobile?

2. What do the children of the young black man ask Griffin?

3. What does the first white man Griffin meets in the sixth section of the book tell Griffin he and his friends do with blacks who misbehave?

4. In the fifth section of the book, what do many people warn Griffin about?

5. How long is the break the bus driver gives his passengers on the bus to Mississippi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does P.D. East have to go to New Orleans?

2. What is once piece of advice that Bill Williams gives Griffin?

3. What does Griffin do in the Catholic church he visits?

4. How does Griffin arrive at the house of his friend, P.D. East?

5. Why is Sterling upset when Griffin goes to see him at the shoeshine stand?

6. Why is the white man who picks Griffin up at the beginning of the fourth section hypocritical?

7. What does Griffin mean when he says he feels like a tenth-class citizen?

8. What attitude does Griffin feel most whites in Mobile take towards blacks?

9. Why does the black preacher Griffin meets in Mobile say he loves whites?

10. How does Griffin feel when he calls his wife on the phone?

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