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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. According to Griffin, how do white people in Mississippi view their relationship with blacks?
(a) They say they have a good relationship with blacks.
(b) They say they do not interact with blacks at all.
(c) They say they have a troubling relationship with blacks.
(d) They say they do not have blacks in their state.

2. How does Griffin travel away from Montgomery?
(a) He drives away in a car.
(b) A bus.
(c) A train.
(d) Hitchhiking.

3. At the beginning of the sixth section of the book, how does Griffin decide to leave Mobile?
(a) A train.
(b) Walking.
(c) A bus.
(d) Hitchhiking.

4. In the fifth section of the book, what do many people warn Griffin about?
(a) Revealing his identity.
(b) Sexual encounters.
(c) Making trouble.
(d) Traveling to different cities.

5. What group of people does Griffin notice is particularly good at giving the hate stare?
(a) Teenagers.
(b) White businessmen.
(c) Twenty-year-old white men.
(d) Older white women.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Griffin arrives in Mobile, where does he stay the night?

2. What job does the well-dressed black man say he used to have?

3. While Griffin is traveling, where is the one place he says he feels safe?

4. Why are the children of the young black man excited to see Griffin when he walks in their home?

5. After visiting with the young black man, whom does Griffin call on the pay phone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the city of Montgomery change for Griffin as he becomes more and more white?

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

4. Describe the home of the young black man that allows Griffin to spend the night in his house.

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

6. How does the attendant at the custard stand act toward Griffin when Griffin asks to use a restroom?

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

8. What do the blacks consider doing when the bus driver will not let them off the bus for the ten-minute break?

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

10. How does Griffin pass back into white society?

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