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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 Jake decide to do while on leave?
(a) Re-enlist.
(b) Become an English citizen.
(c) Try to work up the ranks in the Army.
(d) Desert the Army.

2. How many teeth is Miss Curdy missing?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) All of them.

3. How much does Jake win gambling with a waiter's money in Chapter 10?
(a) Three dollars.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Fifty dollars.
(d) Five dollars.

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

5. What is Jake tired of in Chapter 10?
(a) Zeddy.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Rose.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Zeddy's role at Susy's parties?

3. What does Susy serve with stewed corn when Jake goes to her place in Chapter 7?

4. Who sometimes lends Jake money since he refuses to borrow from the person he lives with?

5. What is Miss Curdy's first name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the class clash between Jake and the Haitian waiter.

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

3. What is the racial atmosphere aboard Jake's ship?

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

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

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

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

8. What events prompt Jake to desert the Army?

9. How does the relationship between Zeddy and Susy end?

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

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