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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What black doctor has found a way to turn a black person white in the novel?
(a) Dr. Max Disher.
(b) Dr. Junius Crookman.
(c) Dr. Henry Givens.
(d) Dr. Hank Johnson.

2. 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) Mormon.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Anglo-Saxon.
(d) Caucasian.

3. How does Max know Mrs. Blandish?
(a) She's his landlady.
(b) She's his ex-girlfriend.
(c) She's his sister.
(d) She's his mother's friend.

4. In what area of New York does Max live in the beginning of the novel?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Upper East Side.

5. What refers to a person who believes in or advocates the superiority of a particular group, especially a racial group?
(a) Inequalitist.
(b) Racist.
(c) Communist.
(d) Supremacist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is a Harlem real estate realtor who funded Dr. Crookman's studies in Germany?

3. What is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?

4. Who is a former Numbers runner and is now an important player in Black-No-More Inc.?

5. There were early rumors about whose deceptive business practices in the novel?

(see the answer key)

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