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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Miss Curdy's first name?

2. Why is it a surprise when the cabaret is shut down by police in Chapter 8?

3. What is Jake tired of in Chapter 10?

4. What is Jake's favorite cabaret?

5. How does Jake spend his free time in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Jake's job on the railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Explain the Baltimore affair.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the speakeasy, why they exist in Home to Harlem, and how they affect the events of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of World War I in the events of Home to Harlem.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Ray and Jake. What kind of relationship do they have?

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