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

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

3. How does the narrator describe the color of Alice's hair?
(a) Mousy brown.
(b) Coal black.
(c) Silver feathered.
(d) Peroxide blond.

4. What is Alice's father's title?
(a) Sir.
(b) Dr.
(c) Lord.
(d) Professor.

5. What does Jones dream about at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) The police arresting him.
(b) Alice leaving him.
(c) Mr. Harrison shooting him.
(d) Being drafted into the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of his co-workers does Jones talk to Alice about?

2. What is the name of Himes' autobiography?

3. What does the narrator say he doesn't have to marry?

4. What does the narrator say he felt a crazy impulse to do?

5. What does Jones discover one of his purchases has turned into?

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