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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 notifies people the police are raiding the party in Chapter 13?

2. What does the fourth waiter say about the ice the chef is giving him?

3. What town does Jake see as a smoky, industrial town?

4. Who is the brown woman afraid will fight Jake in Chapter 20?

5. What does Ms. Rosalind Whicher wear often?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ray's dream after eating the opium. What happens to him the next day?

2. What do Jake and Felice do for the first week they are together?

3. What does Jake do in Chapter 11 before returning to his quarters?

4. How does the pantryman get his revenge against the chef?

5. Why is Madame Laura's not shut down when the policeman arrives? What happens instead?

6. What does Ray think of the house on Fifteenth Street in Chapter 13?

7. What explanation does the brown woman give when she says she is not a prostitute?

8. What is Yaller's job? Who defends him? What does he say?

9. What happens when Rosalind gets sick?

10. Where is Jake's mind at the beginning of Chapter 19? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of food and drink in the story.

Essay Topic 3

Define symbolism, and explain the use of spring as a symbol in Chapter 19.

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