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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What does the narrator tell Mr. Emerson that he wants to do with his future?
(a) become Mr. Bledsoe's assistant
(b) get a high paying position in the city
(c) become a teacher
(d) remain quietly in New York

3. Where does the road in the college town ultimately lead?
(a) To a mental institution
(b) To a statue
(c) To a chapel
(d) To the college

4. Dr. Bledsoe is preoccupied with what?
(a) preventing Mr. Norton from expelling the narrator
(b) getting even
(c) keeping his position
(d) power

5. What kind of speeches has the narrator given from the stage in the chapel?
(a) Phony speeches with notes supplied by white men.
(b) Speeches that expressed his frustration in cultural symbolism.
(c) Genuine speeches that expressed how he felt.
(d) Speeches that flattered the whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some of the black men carry?

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

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

4. What is the symbolic association of the arena in Chapter 16?

5. Where does Bledsoe tell the narrator to go?

(see the answer key)

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