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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kind of speeches has the narrator given from the stage in the chapel?
(a) Speeches that expressed his frustration in cultural symbolism.
(b) Speeches that flattered the whites.
(c) Genuine speeches that expressed how he felt.
(d) Phony speeches with notes supplied by white men.

5. Why does the narrator dump slush on a man's head?
(a) He thinks the man is Bledsoe.
(b) The man insulted him.
(c) The man was preaching nonsense.
(d) The man greeted him with hostility.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Mary Rambo want to take the narrator home?

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

5. What does the narrator lack in Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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