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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator go to the white woman's apartment in Chapter 19?
(a) to discuss ideologies
(b) to seduce her
(c) to meet her husband
(d) because she has seduced him

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had predicted the narrator's relationship with the white woman?

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

3. What does the moon symbolize?

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

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

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