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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. On what instrument does one white man play music at the buffet flat in Chapter 8?
(a) Saxophone.
(b) Guitar.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Piano.

2. When did Jake enlist in the military?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1942.

3. What does Susy serve with stewed corn when Jake goes to her place in Chapter 7?
(a) Chicken pot pie.
(b) Fried chicken.
(c) Pork chops.
(d) Meatloaf.

4. What book does Jake find a waiter reading in Chapter 10?
(a) Sappho.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Sophocles.

5. What cabaret is shut down at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) The Apollo.
(b) The Cotton Club.
(c) The Baltimore.
(d) The Congo.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where is the waiter that Jake finds reading in Chapter 10?

2. Why can't Jake go back to the lovely brown woman?

3. What does Susy threaten two men with who get in a fight over a betting pot?

4. Who takes Jake and Zeddy to Susy's place?

5. Who does the judge wish he could have whipped in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Rose and her pretty boy at the club in Harlem in Chapter 7?

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

3. Explain the Baltimore affair.

4. What happens between Nije and Zeddy at the buffet flat where Jake gambles?

5. Describe Lavinia Curdy. What is her relationship with Susy?

6. Who dances with whom to the blues record at the buffet flat? What does Jake do?

7. What is Jake's life like in Chapter 5?

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

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

10. What job does Zeddy get Jake? What does Jake find out about this job?

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