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

2. Who does Richard write biographical sketches for?
(a) Black Communists
(b) Black political leaders
(c) European leaders
(d) Bolsheviks

3. What is the name of Richard's foreman?
(a) Fin
(b) James
(c) Harry
(d) Olin

4. Who does the editorial attack?
(a) H.L. Mencken
(b) William Faulkner
(c) Mark Twain
(d) James Dean

5. What political party are many of Richard's friends members of?
(a) The Black Panthers
(b) The Fascist party
(c) The Communist party
(d) The Democratic party

Short Answer Questions

1. What does kind of company does Richard join?

2. What is Shorty willing to do for money?

3. What reason does Richard give for leaving the South?

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

5. What parade does Richard try to be part of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Shorty amuse Richard?

3. What does Richard decide at the end of the book?

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

5. Why does Richard find Chicago so startling?

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

7. Why do Richard's fellow comrades begins to shun him?

8. Why does Richard want to read H.L Mencken?

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

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

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