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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Granny and Addie give up their efforts to do?
(a) Find a husband
(b) Find work
(c) Fight for the end of segregation
(d) Save Richard's soul

2. Who offers to give Richard a ride home?
(a) His boss
(b) A group of black men
(c) His boss' wife
(d) A group of white men

3. What does Richard typically eat for breakfast?
(a) Gruel and noodles
(b) Biscuits and gravy
(c) Eggs and toast
(d) Flour and lard mush

4. What is the name of Maggie's husband?
(a) Hoskins
(b) Chicken man
(c) David
(d) Leach

5. Who is Granny renting a room to?
(a) A factory owner
(b) A school teacher
(c) A communist
(d) A cook

6. What does one of the workers show Richard to demonstrate how dangerous working at the sawmill can be?
(a) Hospital reports
(b) His missing fingers
(c) Photographs
(d) The worker's graveyard

7. What does Brother Mance sell?
(a) Bibles
(b) Cars
(c) Plastic surgery
(d) Insurance

8. What does Nathan work as?
(a) Night porter
(b) Cook
(c) Secretary
(d) Doctor

9. What does Richard do to gain acceptance at his new school?
(a) Talk back to the teachers
(b) Bully
(c) Fight
(d) Steal

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

11. What does the principal think he will keep Richard from doing if he does not read his speech?
(a) Working
(b) Living
(c) Graduating
(d) Writing

12. What is Richard afraid Crane and Pease will do if he tells his boss?
(a) Drive him out of town
(b) Kill him
(c) Set fire to his house
(d) Maime him

13. What is the title of the short story that Richard writes?
(a) Black Boys in Wonderland
(b) Garden Wars
(c) The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre
(d) Feeling Low is a Normal Feeling For Me

14. Where is Richard making a delivery to when a policeman stops him?
(a) A rich neighborhood
(b) His boss' house
(c) A black neighborhood
(d) A white neighborhood

15. Who beats Richard until he loses consciousness?
(a) His grandma
(b) His father
(c) The sheriff
(d) His mother

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard refuse from his neighbors?

2. What does Granny think Richard has said?

3. What does Granny equate literary fiction with?

4. Who does Richard start working for?

5. What kind of church does Richard attend with his mother?

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