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

2. 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) Latino.
(b) Protestant.
(c) Aryan.
(d) Anglo-Saxon.

3. What term refers to the specific type of central character which leads the action in "Black No More"?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Hero.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Antihero.

4. What name did Matthew Fisher go by when he was black?
(a) Max Disher.
(b) Matthew Disher.
(c) Robert Fisher.
(d) Max Fisher.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labor and private property?

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

4. For what newspaper is Matthew the editor in Chapter 6?

5. Where did Max and Bunny first meet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What discovery does Matthew make about the opposition of Black-No-More in Chapter 4?

3. What is the basic premise and plot of the story "Black No More"?

4. What threat does Bunny pose to Matthew in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

8. How is a dichotomy illustrated in Matthew in Chapter 6?

9. What do Matthew's actions determine his character to be in the plot of "Black No More" in Chapter 4?

10. What conversation does Max have with Bunny in the end of Chapter 2? What is indicated by it?

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