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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does Richard arrive at in this chapter?

2. What does Richard say the dogs do silently when they regain consciousness?

3. What event causes Richard to lose a lot of his hours at the post office?

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

5. Where does Richard meet a young black man?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Bill terrify Richard?

7. Why does Richard find Chicago so startling?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the whites oppression of black people.

1) In what way could it be said that it was to the whites' benefit that they kept the black people down?

2) How much of the oppression was pure racism and how much was it due to fear?

3) In what way could it be said that the equality has benefited society?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the connotations of the word "nigger."

1) What is its original meaning and what has it come to mean?

2) Why is it now considered so wrong to use?

3) Do you think the word has become too powerful?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Wright's views on religion.

1) What does he mean by religion on a emotional level?

2) What does he mean by religion on an intellectual level?

3) Why does Wright accept God on both an emotional and intellectual level? Is it the same for everyone?

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