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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?
(a) They were horrified by his story and tried to get him to move.
(b) They didn't believe his story.
(c) They secretly enjoyed hearing his story.
(d) They were angry and kept him in town as an example of how not to behave.

4. After whom does the narrator say he wants to pattern himself?
(a) Booker T Washington
(b) Dr, Bledsoe
(c) Mr. Norton
(d) The Founder

5. What is ironic about the narrator's dance with Emma?
(a) He is the only black man she dances with at the party.
(b) She is the first white woman he ever danced with.
(c) The veteran doctor had predicted that the narrator would dance with a white woman.
(d) He had at first refused the offer to dance with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator notice about the whites in the city?

2. Why is the narrator unable to see Mr. Bates?

3. What is ironic about Trueblood's situation?

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

5. For whom does the Brotherhood claim to work?

(see the answer key)

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