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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mary Rambo want to take the narrator home?
(a) To take advantage of him
(b) To take care of him
(c) She is in love with him
(d) She needs the company

2. What does Dr. Bledsoe call the narrator?
(a) a liar
(b) a traitor
(c) an educated fool
(d) a slave

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the vet accuse Mr. Norton?

2. The narrator becomes dizzy at the thought that true saviors might actually be where?

3. How does the narrator get past the drunken vet in the road?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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