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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Richard hesitate in engaging in thievery in the hotel?
(a) He earns enough
(b) He likes his boss
(c) It is immoral
(d) It is not work the risk

2. Why does Richard's boss fire him?
(a) He does not like his silent disapproval
(b) He is always late
(c) He thinks he steals money
(d) He is always reading

3. Why can Richard not write his own speech at his graduation?
(a) White people will be present
(b) The principle wants to promote the school
(c) His cannot spell
(d) He does not have enough time

4. When does the policeman say Richard should not make deliveries to white neighborhoods?
(a) After dark
(b) The weekdays
(c) The weekend
(d) In the morning

5. What does Richard's boss offer him in the storeroom?
(a) His hand
(b) A drink
(c) The black woman's teeth
(d) A cigarette

6. Whose propaganda are the newspapers full of?
(a) The Capitalists
(b) The Communists
(c) The Facists
(d) The Klu Klux Klan

7. What kind of animal does Richard kill?
(a) Buffalo
(b) Cat
(c) Dog
(d) Squirrel

8. Who does Richard say he is more interested in than the church elder's words?
(a) Coca cola
(b) The elder's wife
(c) Fighting
(d) The elder's train set

9. What does Ella think her son's writing will lead people to think he has?
(a) A Godless mind
(b) No friends
(c) A weak mind
(d) A homosexual life

10. What kind of church does Richard attend with his mother?
(a) Catholic
(b) Lutheran
(c) Methodist
(d) Baptist

11. What part of Arkansas does Maggie live in?
(a) Jennifer
(b) Elaine
(c) Moscow
(d) Pope

12. Where does Nathan work as a night porter?
(a) Hospital
(b) A hotel
(c) Drug store
(d) A hostel

13. What kind of hat do the two boys knock off Richard's head?
(a) A baseball hat
(b) A top hat
(c) A straw hat
(d) A bowler hat

14. What city does Alan move to?
(a) Chicago
(b) Detroit
(c) Memphis
(d) New York

15. How does Griggs know Richard?
(a) His is a cousin
(b) He is a former classmate
(c) He is an ex colleague
(d) He is an old housemate

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Richard's brother?

2. What does Granny do when Richard complains about her restrictions?

3. Where does Richard work the following summer?

4. What does one of the workers show Richard to demonstrate how dangerous working at the sawmill can be?

5. Why did the whites kill the black boy?

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