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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What character working in the hospital basement scares Richard?
(a) Jock
(b) Bill
(c) Cooke
(d) Brand

4. What religion is Falk?
(a) Jewish
(b) Muslim
(c) Irish Protestant
(d) Irish Catholic

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Shorty willing to do for money?

2. Why does Richard not find Bess attractive?

3. Who does the editorial attack?

4. Where does Richard meet a young black man?

5. What does Shorty allow a white man to do to him for a quarter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Shorty amuse Richard?

2. In what way does Richard's situation take a turn for the worse when the Great Depression hits America?

3. What happens when Richard joins the May Day parade?

4. Why does Richard find Chicago so startling?

5. What problems does Richard face as publicity agent for the Federal Negro Theater?

6. Why don't Southern people like it when blacks move to Northern cities?

7. Why do the black Communists mock Richard?

8. What does Richard realize as he stands in line at the relief station?

9. How do the white employers at the optical factory arrange a boxing match between Richard and Harrison?

10. How does Richard borrow books from the white library?

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