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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about Trueblood's situation?
(a) He receives charity from the whites.
(b) Other men have done the same thing.
(c) The college wants him to leave.
(d) The college wants him to stay around.

2. How does the narrator get past the drunken vet in the road?
(a) He pretends he is about to run over the vet.
(b) He tells him he has General Pershing in the car.
(c) He claims to be someone of importance.
(d) He pays the vet a bribe.

3. What truth does the vet tell to the narrator that the narrator does not yet understand?
(a) That he should not be afraid of white men
(b) That he is doomed to failure
(c) That the white men are trying to destroy him
(d) That he is invisible

4. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?
(a) A lecture on morality
(b) Nothing
(c) A bottle of whiskey
(d) A hundred dollar bill

5. The image of the slave owners bidding for a naked girl is
(a) something the narrator recalls from his childhood
(b) a vison induced by marijuana
(c) something that happened to the narrator's father
(d) a picture the narrator had seen in a book

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bledsoe tell the narrator to go?

2. Which of the following represents the narrator's philosophy?

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

4. Dr. Bledsoe is preoccupied with what?

5. What does Dr. Bledsoe call the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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