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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mary Rambo want to take the narrator home?
(a) To take care of him
(b) She is in love with him
(c) She needs the company
(d) To take advantage of him

2. What does the narrator discover when he gets to the woman's apartment?
(a) the woman is single
(b) Her husband is away
(c) the woman is divorced
(d) her husband is dead

3. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?
(a) Brother Clifton
(b) Brother Hambro
(c) Brother Westrum
(d) Brother Jack

4. When the woman says the narrator's voice is "primitive," she actually intends the statement as
(a) a word of advice
(b) a compliment
(c) a gesture of seduction
(d) an insult

5. How does the narrator describe the students as they enter the chapel?
(a) They enter the chapel with resentment and fear.
(b) They enter the chapel joyfully.
(c) They enter with the love a captured people has for their conquerors.
(d) They enter with dread and hesitation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator go to the white woman's apartment in Chapter 19?

2. The narrator's need to give speeches is an example of what literary device?

3. What does the narrator lack in Chapter 12?

4. What makes the narrator think that his night with the white woman was a trap?

5. Why does the narrator dump slush on a man's head?

(see the answer key)

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