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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Wright fearful of doing at work?
(a) Making a mistake
(b) Giving in to stealing
(c) Offending the whites
(d) Lying

2. What is the name of Miss Moss' daughter?
(a) Doris
(b) Georgie
(c) Joan
(d) Bess

3. What style of poem does Wright write for the magazine?
(a) A limerick
(b) Free verse
(c) A sonnet
(d) A haiku

4. What role does Richard get at the Federal Relief Theater?
(a) Director
(b) Light technician
(c) Publicity agent
(d) Casting agent

5. What does Richard refuse to accept from a white customer?
(a) Money
(b) A present
(c) Food
(d) Drink

6. What does kind of company does Richard join?
(a) A television company
(b) A optics company
(c) A phone company
(d) An insurance agency

7. Whose teachings do the Garveyites follow?
(a) James Garvey
(b) Charles Darwin
(c) Malcolm X
(d) Marvin Garvey

8. Where does RIchard take a job?
(a) An optical shop
(b) A cafe
(c) A bomb factory
(d) A cake shop

9. Who gives Richard a sly smile before Richard leaves work?
(a) Bess
(b) Shorty
(c) Miss Molly
(d) Falk

10. What is Mencken famous as?
(a) A short story writer
(b) An essayist and critic
(c) A novelist
(d) A journalist

11. Where does Richard meet a young black man?
(a) In a cafe
(b) In a restaurant
(c) On the waterfront
(d) At a watermill

12. What parade does Richard try to be part of?
(a) St Patrick's Day
(b) May Day
(c) St George Day
(d) Independence Day

13. What does Shorty allow a white man to do to him for a quarter?
(a) Kick him
(b) Push him over
(c) Kiss him
(d) Hit him

14. What event causes Richard to lose a lot of his hours at the post office?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) The Great Depression
(c) The Second World War
(d) The First World War

15. What is Bill's favorite phrase?
(a) Hang em all
(b) Brain drain
(c) Watch your back Jack
(d) Let us all start over again

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Richard find is trying to oust him from his position at the Federal Negro Theater?

2. Where does Richard find work?

3. What is Shorty's job at the optical shop?

4. What depresses Wright about Chicago?

5. Who is the only person among Richard's family in Chicago who does not fall ill?

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