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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a militant organization designed to protect and promote the rights of black Americans in the novel?
(a) The Back-to-Africa Society.
(b) The Black Panther Party.
(c) The National Social Equality League.
(d) Committee for the Preservation of Negro Racial Integrity.

2. What holiday is it in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Halloween.
(b) New Year's Eve.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Easter.

3. What holiday begins Chapter 6?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Valentines Day.
(d) The Fourth of July.

4. Who does Matthew hire as his assistant in Chapter 6?
(a) Hank Johnson.
(b) Santop Licorice.
(c) Chuck Foster.
(d) Bunny Brown.

5. Where are there newspaper editorials decrying Black-No-More in Chapter 3?
(a) Germany.
(b) New York.
(c) The South.
(d) Washington.

6. 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?
(a) Emerald Way.
(b) Folsom Avenue.
(c) Auburn Avenue.
(d) Bighton Way.

7. Who is the central character of "Black No More"?
(a) Max Disher.
(b) Reverend Henry Givens.
(c) Dr. Junius Crookman.
(d) Bunny Brown.

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

9. What year is it in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1930.

10. Where does Bunny Brown work in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Darington's Bank.
(b) Bermott Bank.
(c) Douglass Bank.
(d) Dreamers Bank.

11. White businesses, particularly in the South, want their workers to see what as a problem in Chapter 4?
(a) Income.
(b) Race.
(c) Politics.
(d) Living standards.

12. What is Max Disher's profession in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Bartender.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Insurance agent.
(d) Prison guard.

13. Where was the second Ku Klux Klan established?
(a) Florida.
(b) Alabama.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

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

15. There were early rumors about whose deceptive business practices in the novel?
(a) Chuck Foster's.
(b) Bunny Brown.
(c) Hank Johnson's.
(d) Dr. Junius Crookman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to a Caucasian of non-Jewish descent, especially of the Nordic type?

2. 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?

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

4. What kind of business does Mrs. Blandish run for black clientele?

5. What year is it in Chapter 6?

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