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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the real purpose of the Reverend's speech?
(a) To help the students appreciate the Founder's real sacrifice
(b) To create a sense of awe in relation to Dr. Bledsoe
(c) To indoctrinate the students regarding the religion of the college.
(d) To help the students understand how important the college is to the black community.

2. What makes the narrator think that his night with the white woman was a trap?
(a) He dimly remembers the appearance of another man
(b) Other women seem to want to
(c) The Brotherhood is mysteriously silent regarding his activities
(d) The woman does not want him to return

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

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

5. Who had predicted the narrator's relationship with the white woman?
(a) Dr. Bledsoe
(b) Brother Hambro
(c) The veteran doctor at the Golden Day
(d) Brother Jack

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the moon symbolize?

2. In spite of losing his identity, what does the narrator retain?

3. What does the narrator want to do in Chapter 12?

4. When the woman says the narrator's voice is "primitive," she actually intends the statement as

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

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