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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the specific type of central character which leads the action in "Black No More"?
(a) Hero.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Antihero.
(d) Catalyst.

2. What is a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule?
(a) Biography.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Satire.
(d) Romantic comedy.

3. Who is a former Numbers runner and is now an important player in Black-No-More Inc.?
(a) Hank Johnson.
(b) Bunny Brown.
(c) Chuck Foster.
(d) Sybil Smith.

4. What word is widely used in the U.S. to refer to people of European origin or people who are white, even though the original classification was broader than this?
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Mormon.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Anglo-Saxon.

5. Who in the novel had been on a Carolina chain gang for two years?
(a) Hank Johnson.
(b) Junius Crookman.
(c) Bunny Brown.
(d) Henry Givens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Matthew been in Atlanta in Chapter 4?

2. What reporter is waiting in the cab after Max leaves the sanitarium in Chapter 2?

3. In what area of New York does Max live in the beginning of the novel?

4. Matthew is confused as to why so many Southern newspapers seem unfriendly to Black-No-More, Incorporated until he realizes that the business is bad for what?

5. What is the name of Reverend Givens' daughter?

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