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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Richard's new landlady?
(a) Miss Taylor
(b) Jackie
(c) Mrs. Moss
(d) Bess

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

4. What does the Party charge Ross with?
(a) Treachory
(b) Anti-leadership tendencies
(c) Adultery
(d) A consumerist personality

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

6. What is the name of the drug doctors use to sedate the dogs?
(a) Hoytal
(b) Lithium
(c) Nemutal
(d) Seroxat

7. What does Yound accuse Swann of being?
(a) A police collaborator
(b) A Fascist
(c) A journalist
(d) A government spy

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

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

10. Who throws Richard out of the May Day parade?
(a) Security guards
(b) The mayor
(c) Two black Communists
(d) Two white Communists

11. Who joins Richard in Memphis?
(a) His father
(b) His brother and mother
(c) His Uncle Tom
(d) His grandmother

12. Who does Richard find is trying to oust him from his position at the Federal Negro Theater?
(a) The Communists
(b) The Chicago mayor
(c) The American government
(d) The Fascists

13. What does Richard say he wants his bridge of words to connect with?
(a) The black world
(b) The outside world
(c) The white world
(d) The inside world

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the black comrade tell Richard would bolster his credibility?

2. What is the name of the magazine H. L. Mencken edits?

3. What do the black Communists brand Wright as?

4. Why does Richard not find Bess attractive?

5. What does kind of company does Richard join?

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