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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brother Tod Clifton do?
(a) He is a minister
(b) He is a black nationalist
(c) lead the youth of the Brotherhood
(d) He is a fanatic ideologies who teaches newcomers.

2. What makes the narrator homesick when he first gets to New York?
(a) the letters he carries
(b) a message from Mr. Norton
(c) a Gideon Bible
(d) the sight of other black people

3. The veteran doctor claims to have been beaten for what?
(a) returning to the states
(b) failing to fulfil his duty
(c) saving a life
(d) getting drunk

4. The narrator wants to learn everything he can about the Brotherhood in order to
(a) Use it to create equality for black people
(b) Use it to achieve power for himself
(c) Use it to restore those who have been dispossessed
(d) Use it as a means to get even with Bledsoe

5. To what does Ras the Exhorter primarily object?
(a) Clifton's methods of leading the youth
(b) The narrator's street corner approach
(c) The idea of a black man speaking out for white people
(d) The mixing of black and white

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Brother Jack send the narrator at the end of the meeting?

2. Why do certain members of the Brotherhood consider that narrator's speech unsatisfactory?

3. Why is the narrator offended by the man behind the drugstore counter?

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

5. What is most unusual about the narrator's residence?

(see the answer key)

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