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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18, 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jones decide is the only thing he ever wanted?
(a) To have stability.
(b) To marry Alice.
(c) To write.
(d) To leave America.

2. What does Elsie say colored people prefer back home?
(a) Keeping their jobs.
(b) Their own company.
(c) Walking the countryside.
(d) Working hard.

3. Who does Jones find Madge with in Chapter 18?
(a) Herbie.
(b) Elsie.
(c) Don.
(d) Kelly.

4. Why do the two patrol officers stop Alice and Jones?
(a) They have no license plate.
(b) They are black.
(c) They want to search their truck.
(d) They are speeding.

5. What does Himes say he wanted to become?
(a) A real man.
(b) An academic.
(c) A traveler.
(d) A southern man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice say she wants to do instead of go home?

2. Who attends the lecture with Jones and Alice?

3. What does the narrator say a feeling settles in his stomach like?

4. What does Jones say he does with a sudden violent gesture in Chapter 10?

5. What does Jones say he has in the palm of his hand?

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