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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people read the report that the President has made on Black-No-More in Chapter 9?

2. Where do the Givens' and others escape to in Chapter 12?

3. What word means to go from one country, region, or place to another?

4. Whose picture is on the cover of the newspaper in Chapter 12?

5. Where did Buggerie leave the summary sheet of the data in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the opposing Presidential candidates presented in Chapter 10?

2. How do Snobbcraft and Dr. Buggerie attempt to cover their tracks in Chapter 11? What do they discover?

3. Why do the mill laborers distrust the New York unionizers in Chapter 7?

4. How do the antihero and his conspirators escape in Chapter 12?

5. What does Givens do upon arrival in Chapter 12? What does Helen ask Matthew?

6. Why does Rufus Kretin meet with Matthew in Chapter 8?

7. What are Matthew's thoughts about Helen's pregnancy in Chapter 11?

8. What does Buggerie reveal about Snobbcraft's ancestry in Chapter 11? What of the other candidates?

9. What does Dr. Broker reveal to Matthew in Chapter 12? What does he offer to do?

10. What can be ascertained by Matthew's jealousy of Bunny in Chapter 12?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the history of white supremacy organizations in the U.S. and examine their depiction in the novel. How realistic is the depiction?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss Santop Licorice, the Back-to-Africa Society and the Committee for the Preservation of Negro Racial Integrity. How does each relate to the Knights of Nordica?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Matthew's experiences in Atlanta as a white man in the 1930s. How does this setting differ from Harlem? What dissatisfies Matthew about white society? Why?

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