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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9, 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is slang for a white nigger?
(a) Jigger.
(b) Wigger.
(c) Nighty.
(d) Nig-nog.

2. What does Mrs. Harrison think it is important to keep moving forward?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Education for all.
(c) Integration with the whites.
(d) The civil rights movement.

3. What does the narrator hear Henry say next door?
(a) Go to hell.
(b) Not again.
(c) Shut up.
(d) Goddamit.

4. What does Jones discover one of his purchases has turned into?
(a) An ax.
(b) A gun.
(c) A pen.
(d) A knife.

5. What is the name of Jones' girlfriend?
(a) Louise.
(b) Edda.
(c) Jane.
(d) Alice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does McDougall say he is demoting Jones to?

2. Who does Mr. Harrison say the Negro air fighters are intimidating in war?

3. What did Himes steal from the wealthy elderly couple?

4. What does the narrator say he intimidates the fearful white woman with?

5. Which of Wright's novels did Baldwin feel threatened by?

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