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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator notice about the whites in the city?
(a) They are very nice to him.
(b) The hardly seem to notice him.
(c) They appear to be making fun of him.
(d) They are rude to him.

3. What does the unnamed man at the party ask the narrator to do?
(a) sign a commitment
(b) dance
(c) sing a spiritual
(d) give a speech

4. What had Mr. Trueblood done prior to his disgrace?
(a) He was a special singer at the college.
(b) He had been involved in tutoring the black students.
(c) He was a guest lecturer
(d) He was an employee of the college.

5. What procedure is performed on the narrator?
(a) a prefrontal lobotomy
(b) both castration and a lobotomy
(c) castration
(d) mind control implants

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the students as they enter the chapel?

2. What fault does Emma find with the narrator?

3. What is Trueblood's explanation of the rape of his daughter?

4. In Chapter 14, why is Mary cooking cabbage?

5. Why does the narrator not tell the doctors his name after the procedure?

(see the answer key)

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