Black Boy Quizzes

Black Boy Quiz 1

1 Identify the speaker of the following passage: "I never heard a sassier black imp than you in all my life."
Mr. Olin

Mr. Crane

Uncle Clark

Uncle Tom
2 Which of the following is an example of the theme of isolation:
The South Side section communists throw Richard out of the May Day Parade.

To Richard, Granny looks like she is as white as any other white person.

Leon leaves with Aunt Maggie for the North when Ella becomes extremely ill.

Richard is afraid to tell his boss at the café that Tillie is spitting in the food.
3 Which of the following titles was Richard's first attempt at writing?
Riders of the Purple Sage

Hell Hath No Fury

The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre

Native Son
4 Richard's grandfather is embittered and disappointed because:
He never received his pension for his service in the military.

He knows that he is terminally ill and about to pass away without having accomplished his goal of becoming a writer.

His life insurance policy was never awarded to him because of a false policy.

He has no properly raised grandchildren who are proud of their heritage.
5 What aspect o the Communist speakers in Washington Park baffles and angers Richard?
Their lack of courage and wisdom.

The fact that they preached falsely and ignorantly.

Their deliberately careless personal appearance.

The Communists had promised to bring Richard into their literary circle.
6 Why does Richard begin to bootleg liquor in the hotel?
To come into close proximity of the white prostitutes.

To escape the Jim Crow laws by not obeying the laws set by whites.

To have the satisfaction of walking past a white policeman, knowing he was breaking the law.

To amass a substantial amount of money.
7 Complete the following passage regarding the white waitresses at the Chicago café where Richard works: "I did not feel any __________ for the girls, nor any _________. For the most part I was silent with them, though I knew that I had a firmer grasp of
Pain; envy

Admiration; hate

Admiration; disgust

Love; hate
8 What is the title of Comrade Young's document of the history of the human race?
A Marxist View of Man's Evolution

The Human Race: Emotions and Politics

A Pictorial Record of Man's Economic Process

The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre
9 Identify the speaker of the following passage: "I'm not trying to fight you with my writing. I've no political ambitions. I'm not trying to hurt or help any particular comrade."
Richard Wright

Ross

Buddy Nealson

Comrade Young
10 Why does Richard want to be a Communist?
He feels that Communism promotes a sense of unity among the black community, which he has never felt before.

He wants to shape people's feelings and awaken their cultural and emotional selves.

Richard's lifestyle is suited by the non-materialistic ideas of the Communist Party.

He feels that Communism has a strong potential as an ideology that will help overcome ignorance.
11 Why does Richard feel that Uncle Tom has no right to punish or beat him?
Uncle Tom tries to treat Richard as if he were a black servant on a plantation by breaking his spirit.

Richard's violent nature has taught him to fight in order to be accepted, and so he behaves similarly with his relatives.

Uncle Tom is considered a traitor to the Communist party, a Trotskyite.

Richard feels isolated from his relatives and that Uncle Tom has broken the barrier of his isolation.
12 Why is Richard raised eating lard and gravy?
His grandmother is a Seventh Day Adventist and rarely cooks meat.

Richard feels too embarrassed to eat meals with Mrs. Moss and Bess.

His mother belongs to a Methodist church and rarely cooks meat.

His mother is a Seventh Day Adventist and rarely cooks meat.
13 According to Richard, how is black culture transmitted from one household to another?
Through conversation within the gang.

Through their belief in God.

By insurance agents who go door-to-door selling policies.

From within the workplace.
14 When Richard is fifteen, why does he begin to falter in his schoolwork?
He is not physically strong enough.

He decides to socialize with a gang.

He requires the use of glasses.

He doesn't understand what the teacher is saying.
15 Why does Richard decide to interview Ross?
As part of a project for the Communist movement.

Because he feels he does not have a large grasp on common Negro culture.

To gather information for a book of biographical sketches.

All of the above.
16 Why does Richard move to live with his grandmother?
It is easier for him to obtain a job when living with his grandmother.

He has always wanted to see the North.

His grandmother lives closer to Jackson, where his father is stationed.

Ella has a stroke and falls too ill to take care of him.
17 Who warns his children not to speak with Richard?
Aunt Maggie

Brother Mance

Uncle Clark

Uncle Tom
18 Where was Richard Wright born?
Mississippi

Illinois

Missouri

Louisiana
19 What does Richard's mother do when he tells her that he is hungry?
She tells Grandfather to beat him.

She gives him lard and gravy.

She tells him to live with his father.

She tells him to "catch a kungry."
20 Complete the following passage: "Money, God, race, sex, color, war, planes, machines, trains, swimming, boxing, anything... The __________ of one black household was thus transmitted to another black household..."
Folk tradition

Culture

Attitudes

Hatred
21 Before Richard gives his graduation speech, what does he do in preparation?
Pray to God for forgiveness and hope.

Write his speech on blank, white paper.

Purchase a long-pants suit.

Ask the principal to edit his speech.
22 Wright criticizes the black community for their lack of unity and instability therefor. Complete the related passage in which Wright discusses his criticism: "I used to mull over the strange absence of _____________ in Negroes, how unstable was our tende
Real kindness

Intellectual curiosity

Real culture

Real joy
23 After Richard's first day at Howard Institute, what does he learn?
How to drink.

How to fight.

How to play "pop the whip."

New swear words.
24 What effect does Wright achieve by splitting Black Boy into two parts?
Dividing the novel into parts is symbolic of Richard's ambivalent behavior.

Wright emphasizes the duality between the North and the South.

Wright is able to reflect upon the theme of isolation.

None of the above.
25 Who does Mr. Olin pay Richard to fight with?
Griggs

Brande

Harrison

Leon

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From the text:

The doctor arrived. Yes, he told us, my mother had suffered a stroke of paralysis. She was in a serious condition.

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