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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) the memory of Mr. Norton
(d) a desire for revenge

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

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

4. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?
(a) Brother Clifton
(b) Brother Westrum
(c) Brother Jack
(d) Brother Hambro

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. Why does the narrator dump slush on a man's head?

(see the answer key)

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