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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) Let us all start over again
(b) Brain drain
(c) Watch your back Jack
(d) Hang em all

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

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

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

5. What does Richard refuse to accept from a white customer?
(a) A present
(b) Food
(c) Drink
(d) Money

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Richard get at the Federal Relief Theater?

2. Which two characters go to Chicago first?

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

4. What does kind of company does Richard join?

5. What does Richard need to do to to get the position at the post office?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the white man and black man use Richard to help them move the liquor?

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

4. Why does Bill terrify Richard?

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

6. How do Richard's white co-workers in the cafe shock him?

7. How do Richard's co-workers react when he tells them he is moving North?

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

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

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

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