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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) To take advantage of him
(c) She needs the company
(d) She is in love with him

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator lack in Chapter 12?
(a) A sense of direction
(b) motivation to keep going
(c) his interest in returning to college
(d) money to live on

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

4. According to Reverend Barbee, why does Dr. Bledsoe enjoy a position of apparent power?

5. How does the narrator describe the students as they enter the chapel?

(see the answer key)

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