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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 does a yellow-skinned lover steal from Susy when he leaves her?
(a) Her gin.
(b) Her poker chips.
(c) Her savings.
(d) Her oven range.

2. What was Jake's job before enlisting in the military?
(a) Construction worker.
(b) Longshoreman.
(c) Dining car worker.
(d) Farm hand.

3. Why do Zeddy's friends laugh at him when he visits them?
(a) Because he can never win card games.
(b) He wears clothes that Susy lays out for him.
(c) He is under Susy's control.
(d) Because of the way he dances.

4. Who does the judge wish he could have whipped in Chapter 8?
(a) Madame Suarez.
(b) The white women at the buffet flat.
(c) Jake.
(d) Zeddy.

5. What is Zeddy's role at Susy's parties?
(a) Susy's assistant.
(b) Bartender.
(c) Singer and entertainer.
(d) Card dealer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jake go after leaving the Baltimore at the end of Chapter 4?

2. How does Nije make money, according to Chapter 5?

3. What does the man that Miss Curdy is first attracted to think of her in Chapter 6?

4. On what instrument does one white man play music at the buffet flat in Chapter 8?

5. What job does Jake have in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miss Curdy think of Jake? How does he react?

2. How does the resentment between the chef and the fourth waiter begin?

3. What are the three cabarets mentioned in Chapter 4? What is said about them?

4. How does Jake feel about Rose having an affair with a white man?

5. What is Rose's history with black men?

6. What events prompt Jake to desert the Army?

7. What does Zeddy announce when he returns to Harlem? What does he say about Susy?

8. What is the financial arrangement between Jake and the brown woman in Chapter 2? What does Jake later find in his pocket?

9. What revelation does Jake have about blacks while speaking with the Haitian waiter?

10. Who is Nije? How does Nije get money?

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