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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. Who delivers Helen's baby in Chapter 12?

2. What does the word "buggery" relate to?

3. Who does Bunny learn has been lynched in Chapter 12?

4. In Chapter 9, Matthew decides to have Reverend Givens call on who to shut down Black-No-More on national radio?

5. Two days before the election in Chapter 11, most people believe who will win the Presidency?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many sanitariums are still running in Chapter 10? What are lying-in hospitals developed for?

2. What does Dr. Buggerie promise to produce to Arthur Snobbcraft in Chapter 9?

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

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

5. How does Matthew go about shutting down the Republican vote in Chapter 9?

6. Why are Democrats worried about losing votes in Chapter 8?

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

8. What is notable about the broadcasting company name in Chapter 9?

9. Who are the Anglo-Saxon Association of America, and who leads them?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the portrayal of black society in Black No More. Do you think that the characters are justified in abandoning their ancestry for a better life? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Describe W.E.B. Du Bois and the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. How are these satirized in the novel?

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