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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. Which of the following characters is described as obviously successful if not wealthy?
(a) Clair.
(b) Maltz.
(c) Louis.
(d) Fredericka.

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

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

4. About what does the woman who sits next to the Fosters complain?
(a) The lack of conversation.
(b) The food.
(c) The countries visited.
(d) The people with whom she has to eat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. G. block unemployment?

2. What does Charles ask Johnson that Plinkett witnessed?

3. What does Mrs. Richards say when Louis asks if Clair is close to anyone?

4. To what does the author say that great myths have been reduced?

5. For what is the narrator searching?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Leon describe his landlady?

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

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

5. What does Harold's wife, Ruth, demand he do and if he doesn't follow through, what does she say will happen?

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

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

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

9. What does Paul do after months of silence at the mental hospital?

10. Where does this story take place?

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