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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. At the start of the fifth section of the book, with whom do Griffin and P.D. East meet?
(a) Dean Sam Gandy.
(b) Dr. Sid Blander.
(c) Sterling Williams.
(d) George Levitan.

2. What profession does P.D. East have?
(a) He is a city official.
(b) He is the editor of a local newspaper.
(c) He is a doctor specializing in skin care.
(d) He is a restaurant owner.

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

4. How old are the children of the black man who befriends Griffin in the sixth section of the book?
(a) All are babies.
(b) Ten to fifteen.
(c) Nine to four months.
(d) Nine to eighteen.

5. Outside the bathroom with the flier, what does Griffin see in the trashcan?
(a) A pair of glasses.
(b) A pile of clothes.
(c) A stack of fliers.
(d) A piece of bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Griffin decide to go after Montgomery?

2. When Griffin gets on the bus in Mississippi, where does he sit?

3. How many rooms are in the home of the young black man who befriends Griffin in the sixth section of the book?

4. While he is at the church, why does Griffin pick up the piece of writing?

5. How do P.D. East's neighbors and friends treat him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe what Griffin sees on the bathroom wall of the bus station.

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

7. How does the man from Massachusetts Griffin meets while hitchhiking feel about people from Mississippi?

8. Why does Griffin decide to go to Mississippi?

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

10. Why do the young black man's children think they are having a party?

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