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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the real purpose of the Reverend's speech?

3. What does the moon symbolize?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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