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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the woman says the narrator's voice is "primitive," she actually intends the statement as
(a) a word of advice
(b) a gesture of seduction
(c) an insult
(d) a compliment

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary Rambo want to take the narrator home?

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

3. The narrator's need to give speeches is an example of what literary device?

4. In spite of losing his identity, what does the narrator retain?

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

(see the answer key)

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