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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the students as they enter the chapel?
(a) They enter the chapel with resentment and fear.
(b) They enter with the love a captured people has for their conquerors.
(c) They enter the chapel joyfully.
(d) They enter with dread and hesitation.

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

3. What does the moon symbolize?
(a) The eye of God
(b) An eye that sees only what it chooses.
(c) Intellectual vision that is defective
(d) The vision of those in power.

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) He dimly remembers the appearance of another man
(c) The Brotherhood is mysteriously silent regarding his activities
(d) Other women seem to want to

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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