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Question 1

What was Griffins motivation to conduct his race experiment?

Answer 1

Report stating suicidal tendencies among southern negroes were on the rise.

Question 2

Mr. Legit an owned sepia which was?

Answer 2

The magazine that would receive some articles at the completion of the project.

Question 3

Where does Griffin begin his project?

Answer 3

New Orleans, LA

Question 4

How was griffin able to dark in his skin?

Answer 4

By taking an oral medication normally prescribed for victims of vitiligo (loss of pigment in skin, especially noticeable in darker complected individuals) and exposing skin to sun lamps.

Question 5

Why did he use a stain?

Answer 5

He used a stain in order to enhance his tone.

Question 6

What were the side effects of the increased dosage of medication?

Answer 6

He is tired and is experiencing nausea.

Question 7

What was the phrase the doctor revealed to griffin from his previous encounters with negroes?

Answer 7

“The lighter the negro the more trustworthy he is.”

Question 8

What was griffins reaction to his reflection after he transforms himself into a negro?

Answer 8

He doesn’t recognize himself and he is astounded at the transformation.

Question 9

What do the hawkers at the club try to entice?

Answer 9

The white griffin to see the Semi-naked girls inside.

Question 10

When do the hawkers change?

Answer 10

When griffin has become negro and they ignore him because he appears to be a negro.

Question 11

What was the name of the first hotel griffin stays as a negro?

Answer 11

The butler.

Question 12

What is the name of the man who runs the shoe shine stand?

Answer 12

Sterling Williams

Question 13

Who does he reveals his plans to, and why?

Answer 13

Sterling Williams, as a way to transition to the Negro world.

Question 14

As the shoe shine man and griffin talk, what does sterling begin to do?

Answer 14

Sterling begins to include griffin as part of the “we”, meaning negroes.

Question 15

Griffin notices some whites who come to the shine stand and talk candidly because?

Answer 15

They were asking where they could find a negro girls for sexual exploits.

Question 16

Griffin uses sensory images and imagery to describe what?

Answer 16

Life at the stand with this sentence: “odors of sweat, tobacco, coffee and damp stone around us, overladen always by the smell of fish nearby salt water.”

Question 17

Who does griffin meet at the YMCA coffee shop?

Answer 17

Meets several negro leaders, elegant men who speak of “the problem”.

Question 18

What do they feel must happen in order for the negro to succeed?

Answer 18

Negroes need to be more unified; they need a “saint” to unite them. Their talk seems to foreshadow the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther king, jr.

Question 19

As the cafe closes who is Mr. Griffin introduced to?

Answer 19

J.p Guillory. Mr. Guillory seems to recognize Mr. Griffins name and asks for the titles of some of his books.

Question 20

Why did Mr. Guillory’s “face blank with astonishment”?

Answer 20

Because he recognized the mans name as being that of a white man, yet Guillory was looking A at what appeared to be a negro man.

Question 21

A young man threatens griffin as?

Answer 21

As he tries to return to the y for his second night with Mrs. Davis.

Question 22

How does griffin avoid being hurt by the white teen?

Answer 22

By growling at the white teenager, and threatening to hurt him.

Question 23

How does the owner YMCA cafe summaries the problem, the catch-22 for the negro In the south?

Answer 23

When he says the black tries to succeed by educating himself, but then cannot find work equivalent (equal to) with his training. The white suppresses even the “cream of the crop” (the most highly educated) to live in poverty.

Question 24

Why did the negro populace awake on the morning of November 14 1959 with a “glum and angry” face?

Answer 24

Because a Mississippi jury refused to indict anyone in the Parker lynch trial, in which white supremacist dragged a young negro out of a jail cell and hung him (lynched him).

Question 25

After reading the article what does griffin decide?

Answer 25

Griffin decides he has to go into Mississippi.

Question 26

What phenomenon does griffin witness as he waits to board the bus to Hattiesburg?

Answer 26

A white soldier boarding the bus goes to the back of the line, behind the blacks.

Question 27

At the first stop, how does the bus driver intimidate and discriminate against the blacks on the back of the bus?

Answer 27

By refusing to let the blacks off the bus at all. One of the blacks retaliates for this treatment by urinating in the back of the bus.

Question 28

What does griffin find unusual?

Answer 28

That the white cab drivers in Hattiesburg will take black customers as fares.

Question 29

As griffin begins to write a letter to his wife what happens?

Answer 29

He hears voices in his head taunting him about writing “my darling” to a white woman.

Question 30

Why does griffin contact p.d. East in Hattiesburg?

Answer 30

Because he doesn’t feel safe in the “ghetto”. His friends newspaper is the petal paper.

Question 31

Griffin has recently tried to do less of what?

Answer 31

To do less “saddling” of the issues and speak more about truth and he is currently writing a novel describing the trials of printing the truth rather than what the white southerner wants to hear.

Question 32

What was the result of the “coughness” in journalism?

Answer 32

Was that ads and subscriptions are being cancelled because they don’t want to read “that stuff.”

Question 33

Griffin stayed up all night and spent the rest of the evening doing what?

Answer 33

Reading his friends manuscript.

Question 34

At Dillard’s university, dean gandy asked p. D. East about what?

Answer 34

The voting situation in Mississippi

Question 35

How did one white men registering one negro prevent the negros voting?

Answer 35

By testing the negroes ability to read by giving him a Chinese newspaper.

Question 36

Upon his arrival back in New Orleans, what does griffin do?

Answer 36

Griffin decides to go to Biloxi. MS, a town he had previously visited as a white man.

Question 37

At the gas station, what does griffin find in the restroom?

Answer 37

Griffin finds a notice in the men’s room listing prices that a white man will pay a black man to secure black women to commit various sex acts with. Prices are higher for virginal teens.