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

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

3. What is the name of Miss Moss' daughter?
(a) Doris
(b) Bess
(c) Georgie
(d) Joan

4. What does Richard need to do to to get the position at the post office?
(a) Buy a suit
(b) Rent an apartment
(c) Marry
(d) Put on weight

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person among Richard's family in Chicago who does not fall ill?

2. What does Richard say he wants his bridge of words to connect with?

3. What is the name of the drug doctors use to sedate the dogs?

4. What style of poem does Wright write for the magazine?

5. Who does Richard write biographical sketches for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Marcus Garvey?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Mrs. Moss end up disgusting Richard?

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

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

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

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