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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. Why does Harold say that his prices have to be higher in some stores than others?
(a) Because he needs to make more money.
(b) Because his investments are higher.
(c) To help all people achieve equality.
(d) So that he does not go bankrupt.

2. What happens when Paul is transferred to Oakland, CA?
(a) He marries a black girl.
(b) He immediately asks for a transfer to Tennessee.
(c) He is attacked by a stranger.
(d) He begins working in a mental hospital.

3. Why did Clair invite Louis to Los Angeles?
(a) To see the sights.
(b) To meet her mother.
(c) To plan the wedding.
(d) To watch her act in a movie.

4. For what is the narrator searching?
(a) His one true love.
(b) The definition of love.
(c) The meaning of life.
(d) How God sees the end of the world.

5. What do Harold's children see that upsets them?
(a) Realizing their father is a cheat
(b) Their father being taken away by the police.
(c) Their friends throwing stones at their father's stores.
(d) Watching him being picked on in the news.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say that everything has?

2. To what are Leon and Eunice summoned?

3. In the story, what is said to be the only one book that offers a suitable religion for businessmen?

4. With what color does Harold say is the only color that he is concerned?

5. Why does Charles's lawyer want his crime to be called manslaughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruth want to advise Harold to do and what does she do instead?

2. What does the narrator say great literature has given way to?

3. What does the narrator say that he is enough of a realist to accept?

4. What are the Foster's doing because it was recommended and because they are tired of tourism?

5. What is the first parable about the narrator shares?

6. What makes Eunice wonder about the hotel's breakfast calls?

7. How does Leon describe his landlady?

8. When Mrs. Richards bets a woman is fattening Louis up for the fry, about what does Louis think?

9. What is Harold Green caught doing that angers people in the community?

10. What does Jed Jones say happened after he heard the shots?

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