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

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

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

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

5. Where does Young's identification state he has escaped from?
(a) Brazil
(b) A mental institution
(c) A chain gang
(d) Prison

Short Answer Questions

1. What does kind of company does Richard join?

2. What is Bill's favorite phrase?

3. What is Shorty willing to do for money?

4. Where does Richard move to?

5. Why does Richard wait two days before his departure to tell his boss that he is leaving?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Shorty amuse Richard?

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

3. Why does Bill terrify Richard?

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

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

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

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

8. What problems does Wright find in New York City?

9. Who was Marcus Garvey?

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

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