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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
(a) Irony.
(b) Absurdity.
(c) Half-truth.
(d) Hilarity.

2. What reporter is waiting in the cab after Max leaves the sanitarium in Chapter 2?
(a) Bunny Brown.
(b) Hank Johnson.
(c) Chuck Foster.
(d) Sybil Smith.

3. How did Hank Johnson work his way up in New York?
(a) Mixing drinks.
(b) The Numbers racket.
(c) The Wall Street game.
(d) Cutting hair.

4. Who does Bunny encounter in Chapter 8 that used to run the Negro Data League in New York?
(a) Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard.
(b) Dr. Samuel Buggerie.
(c) Dr. Joseph Bonds.
(d) Dr. Napoleon Wellington Jackson.

5. What street are Max and the reporter walking down when he is shocked at the fact that no one pays attention to him or thinks it odd that he is with a white woman in Chapter 2?
(a) Broadway.
(b) Park Avenue.
(c) SoHo.
(d) 16th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Max intend to board a train at the end of Chapter 2?

2. In Chapter 8, properties that blacks once rented are having to be repaired and updated why?

3. For what paper does the reporter work who waits for Max in his cab outside the sanitarium in Chapter 2?

4. Despite her distant ancestry, Dr. Crookman's wife appears to be what?

5. What word means freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.?

(see the answer key)

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