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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ellison, for what have African Americans historically had to fight?
(a) The right for education
(b) The right to fight
(c) The right for fair employment
(d) Their freedoms

2. How does the narrator's grandfather regard his own meekness?
(a) He considers himself a victim
(b) He considers himself a traitor.
(c) He is proud of his choices.
(d) He considers himself a coward.

3. What was the topic of the narrator's graduation day speech?
(a) Humilty
(b) Racial pride
(c) Equality
(d) Courage

4. Which of the following represents the narrator's philosophy?
(a) The light reveals the truth
(b) The truth is the light and the light is the truth
(c) The light reveals all things
(d) Truth is destined to come forth

5. Where was the novel written?
(a) Harlem
(b) Vermont
(c) New York
(d) Georgia

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the road in the college town ultimately lead?

2. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?

3. What group of society is represented by the white men at the Battle Royal?

4. The image of the slave owners bidding for a naked girl is

5. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?

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