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

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

3. What style of poem does Wright write for the magazine?
(a) A limerick
(b) Free verse
(c) A haiku
(d) A sonnet

4. What does the black comrade tell Richard would bolster his credibility?
(a) A night on the town
(b) Drive a truck
(c) A white mistress
(d) A confrontation with the police

5. What does Richard tell his black comrade he does for a living?
(a) Empties bins
(b) Boxes
(c) Writes books
(d) Sweeps roads

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Party charge Ross with?

2. Where does Richard meet a young black man?

3. Where do Richard and his friend find bootleg liquor?

4. What is the name of the John Reed Club magazine?

5. What is Mencken famous as?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the black Communists mock Richard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Shorty amuse Richard?

10. Who was Marcus Garvey?

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