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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator excuse his lack of responsibility?
(a) The downtrodden should not be expected to assume responsibility
(b) Because he is invisible, he doesn't know what responsibility to take
(c) No one has ever given him responsibility
(d) Responsibility cannot happen without recognition

2. When the narrator goes to see Mr. Emerson, who does he actually see?
(a) Mr. Emerson's son
(b) Mr. Emerson's secretary
(c) an unnamed individual
(d) Mr. Emerson's assistant

3. Where does Brother Jack send the narrator at the end of the meeting?
(a) to meet with Westrum
(b) Back to his apartment at the men's center
(c) Back to addressing the woman questions
(d) Back to Brother Hambro for more indoctrination sessions

4. What does the man in Emerson's office imply after reading the letter given him by the narrator?
(a) That Mr. Emerson is the wrong person to help the narrator.
(b) That the narrator is in fact someone else.
(c) That that narrator has already seen Mr. Emerson.
(d) That the narrator wrote the letters himself

5. Why does the narrator dump slush on a man's head?
(a) The man was preaching nonsense.
(b) The man greeted him with hostility.
(c) The man insulted him.
(d) He thinks the man is Bledsoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ironic about Trueblood's situation?

2. How does the narrator react to the dolls that are being sold by Clifton?

3. Why is the narrator unable to see Mr. Bates?

4. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?

5. In Chapter 14, why is Mary cooking cabbage?

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