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

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

3. 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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?

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

3. What does the narrator discover when he gets to the woman's apartment?

4. What kind of speeches has the narrator given from the stage in the chapel?

5. What does the moon symbolize?

(see the answer key)

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