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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom does the Brotherhood claim to work?
(a) all people
(b) Those of their own party
(c) Black people
(d) White people

2. According to Reverend Barbee, why does Dr. Bledsoe enjoy a position of apparent power?
(a) The Founder told Reverend Barbee that Bledsoe deserved the position.
(b) The Founder and Bledsoe were related.
(c) Dr. Bledsoe had performed favors for the Founder.
(d) The Founder, with his dying breath, asked Bledsoe to continue in his leadership

3. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?
(a) They secretly enjoyed hearing his story.
(b) They were horrified by his story and tried to get him to move.
(c) They were angry and kept him in town as an example of how not to behave.
(d) They didn't believe his story.

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

5. What does the doctor mean when he says they "picked poor robin clean"?
(a) They have damaged the narrator's personality
(b) They have completely destroyed the narrator's memories
(c) They have taken all the narrator's money.
(d) They have eliminated any possibility of getting a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator fear is the reason for his inability to get an appointment with the trustees?

2. Why does the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?

3. In addition to his memories, what else has the narrator lost?

4. What makes the narrator homesick when he first gets to New York?

5. What does the moon symbolize?

(see the answer key)

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