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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 the narrator head for the East?
(a) He is obliged to go there.
(b) This is the new Mecca and he is drawn there.
(c) Words have detached from emotion and passion.
(d) It is softer there.

2. Who reminded Rogers of a disturbance caused by Charles previously?
(a) Ex-secretary.
(b) Grant.
(c) Piknett.
(d) Johnson.

3. Why does the judge's secretary tell him he must shine at the meeting?
(a) To protect Charles.
(b) To overcome the case.
(c) Political reasons.
(d) To help with race relations.

4. What does Charles ask Johnson that Plinkett witnessed?
(a) When is my chance?
(b) Is it time?
(c) Why are you still here?
(d) How much longer?

5. What does the narrator ask the missionaries to tell him without looking in their Bibles?
(a) What the note must contain.
(b) What the purpose of life is.
(c) How to keep from committing suicide.
(d) Where he can find love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did Thomas love in college?

2. How does Rogers characterize Charles's talent?

3. How many days did Charles sit silently at his murder trial?

4. How many of the seven wanted posters are of blacks?

5. Why did Clair invite Louis to Los Angeles?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Clair talk about during her part of the dinner?

4. What does Charles do that is unlike Detroit-born mechanics and what does he think will happen as a result of this?

5. Why does the editor feel obliged to impose order on the piece of writing in front of him?

6. What does Leon say that causes her to call her husband a bigot?

7. What does the group of storytellers who Ginny joined consider themselves and what happens to change this?

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

9. Describe the character Clair as seen through Louis's eyes.

10. Who is Nelson Reed and what does he become?

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