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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the real purpose of the Reverend's speech?
(a) To help the students appreciate the Founder's real sacrifice
(b) To help the students understand how important the college is to the black community.
(c) To create a sense of awe in relation to Dr. Bledsoe
(d) To indoctrinate the students regarding the religion of the college.

2. For whom does the Brotherhood claim to work?
(a) Black people
(b) all people
(c) Those of their own party
(d) White people

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

4. Why does the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?
(a) Dr. Bledsoe forgets to pull his legs back
(b) Reverend Barbee isn't watching where he is going.
(c) Someone distracts Reverend Barbee
(d) Reverend Barbee is blind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to his memories, what else has the narrator lost?

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

3. What does the cord in chapter 11 symbolize?

4. What kind of speeches has the narrator given from the stage in the chapel?

5. What makes the narrator homesick when he first gets to New York?

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