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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to any White person whose native language is English and whose cultural affiliations are those common to Britain and the U.S.?
(a) Aryan.
(b) Latino.
(c) Anglo-Saxon.
(d) Protestant.

2. What do the white men at the table by Max and Bunny ask for them to purchase in Chapter 1?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Pot.
(c) Cigars.
(d) Liquor.

3. When was the second Ku Klux Klan established?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1921.

4. What does the Greek word 'kuklos" mean?
(a) Square.
(b) Edge.
(c) Circle.
(d) Line.

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

6. What is the name of Dr. Crookman's company?
(a) Black-No-More, Incorporated.
(b) The Lighter Side, Incorporated.
(c) Vanishing Darkness, LLC.
(d) Disguise Yourself White, LLC.

7. Where does Matthew tell Reverend Givens he is from in Chapter 4?
(a) New York.
(b) Maine.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Michigan.

8. What was passed by the Congress of the United States shortly after the American Civil War helping to protect the voting rights of African-Americans?
(a) The Power Acts.
(b) The Force Acts.
(c) The Race Acts.
(d) The Confederate Acts.

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

10. Who runs the The National Social Equality League?
(a) Santop Licorice.
(b) Dr. Joseph Bonds.
(c) Walter Williams.
(d) Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard.

11. In the beginning of Chapter 6, the Knights of Nordica are celebrating the gaining of how many members?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 300,000.

12. What is the name of the girlfriend who recently left Max in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Minnie.
(b) Bonnie.
(c) Betty.
(d) Annette.

13. What year is it in Chapter 6?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1929.

14. Who is the National Chairman of the Republican Party in the novel?
(a) Samuel Buggerie.
(b) Gorman Gay.
(c) Harold Goosie.
(d) Walter Brybe.

15. Who is the founder of the Back-to-Africa Society?
(a) Walter Williams.
(b) Dr. Joseph Bonds.
(c) Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard.
(d) Santop Licorice.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What year is it in the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. In what war did Bunny and Max both serve?

5. What is a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule?

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