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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 the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?
(a) Someone distracts Reverend Barbee
(b) Dr. Bledsoe forgets to pull his legs back
(c) Reverend Barbee isn't watching where he is going.
(d) Reverend Barbee is blind.

2. Why does the narrator go to the white woman's apartment in Chapter 19?
(a) to seduce her
(b) to meet her husband
(c) to discuss ideologies
(d) because she has seduced him

3. In spite of losing his identity, what does the narrator retain?
(a) the memory of Mr. Norton
(b) an urgency to find a job
(c) a desire for revenge
(d) his naive outlook on life

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator lack in Chapter 12?

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

3. What does the moon symbolize?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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