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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The narrator's need to give speeches is an example of what literary device?
(a) suspense
(b) foreshadowing
(c) irony
(d) audio imagery

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the moon symbolize?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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