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

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

3. Who is Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard a portrayal of from history?
(a) Louis Armstrong.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) George Washington Carver.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

4. What refers to an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence?
(a) Asylum.
(b) Sanitarium.
(c) Clinic.
(d) Hospital.

5. Black residents in New York are moving out of what neighborhood in Chapter 3?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Harlem.
(d) The Upper East Side.

Short Answer Questions

1. What predominantly black area of town in Atlanta does Matthew occasional go to, but no one will speak to him there because he is white in Chapter 4?

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

3. Where does Max stop by where all his friends hang out after dropping off the reporter in Chapter 2?

4. By what does Bunny recognize Max in Chapter 2?

5. Where are there newspaper editorials decrying Black-No-More in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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