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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Richard work with restless boys?
(a) South Side Boys' Club
(b) Happy Homes
(c) Gangland North
(d) West Side Boys' Club

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

3. What is the name of the John Reed Club magazine?
(a) Left Front
(b) Right Front
(c) Middle ground
(d) Common ground

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

5. What depresses Wright about Chicago?
(a) The racism
(b) The traffic
(c) The rudeness of the people
(d) The industrial landscape

6. What is Shorty's job at the optical shop?
(a) Elevator man
(b) Lens maker
(c) Floor mopper
(d) Toilet cleaner

7. What is Shorty willing to do for money?
(a) Anything
(b) Put himself in danger
(c) Perform
(d) Demean himself

8. What did Martin Garvey advocate for black Americans?
(a) A return to Africa
(b) War
(c) A move to Europe
(d) Revolution

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

10. Where do Richard and his friend find bootleg liquor?
(a) Floating on the water
(b) In a patch of weeds
(c) Under floorboards
(d) In a sand pit

11. Where do the Hoffmans operate their store?
(a) A whites only neighborhood
(b) The city center
(c) A railway station
(d) A metro station

12. What reason does Shorty give for not joining Richard?
(a) He has too many responibilities
(b) He earns a lot of money
(c) He likes the South
(d) He is lazy

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

14. What do the black Communists brand Wright as?
(a) A snob
(b) An intellectual
(c) An Uncle Tom
(d) A worker

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mencken famous as?

2. What is the name of the drug doctors use to sedate the dogs?

3. Where does Richard meet a young black man?

4. What character working in the hospital basement scares Richard?

5. What event causes Richard to lose a lot of his hours at the post office?

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