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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Max's hometown?
(a) Atlanta, GA.
(b) Memphis, TN.
(c) Frankfurt, KY.
(d) Biloxi, MS.

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

3. When was the first Ku Klux Klan established?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1854.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the central character of "Black No More"?

2. Matthew is confused as to why so many Southern newspapers seem unfriendly to Black-No-More, Incorporated until he realizes that the business is bad for what?

3. What word means freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.?

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

5. Who is losing all of the business at her hair salon in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and when does Chapter 1 of "Black No More" begin? What two characters meet in the opening?

2. How does Max go about approaching the beautiful woman in Chapter 1? What is her response?

3. Describe what Max finds in the Honkey Tonk Club in Chapter 1. What are the clientele like?

4. What plans are discussed for Black-No-More Inc. in the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. What examples of uniting take place in Chapter 6?

6. What does Dr. Crookman believe his company is doing for society? Why is this absurd?

7. Why do the leaders of the National Social Equality League call a conference in Chapter 5?

8. Where is Max in Chapter 4? How has his identity changed?

9. What does Max remark about his skin after the procedure in Chapter 2? How is this satirical?

10. What does Max ask Dr. Crookman in Chapter 1? How does the chapter end?

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