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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Max intend to board a train at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Dallas, TX.
(b) Memphis, TN.
(c) Atlanta, GA.
(d) New Orleans, LA.

2. For what paper does the reporter work who waits for Max in his cab outside the sanitarium in Chapter 2?
(a) The Herald.
(b) The Times.
(c) The Sun.
(d) The Scimitar.

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

4. What word means freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Purity.
(c) Organic.
(d) Ignorance.

5. Who is president of the Anglo-Saxon Association of America?
(a) Senator Rufus Kretin.
(b) President Harold Goosie.
(c) Gorman Gay.
(d) Mr. Arthur Snobbcraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many telegrams and long distance telephone calls of congratulation did the radio station receive after Reverend Givens' speech in Chapter 9?

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

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

4. Where is Max's hometown?

5. What refers to any White person whose native language is English and whose cultural affiliations are those common to Britain and the U.S.?

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