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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The image of the slave owners bidding for a naked girl is
(a) a vison induced by marijuana
(b) a picture the narrator had seen in a book
(c) something that happened to the narrator's father
(d) something the narrator recalls from his childhood

2. What would the narrator like to add to his "hole"?
(a) a phonograph player
(b) a kitchen
(c) a TV set
(d) four more radio-phonographs

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

4. Which of the following two concepts, in combination, does Ellison see as a "raft of hope."
(a) compassion and equality
(b) equality and art
(c) art and democracy
(d) democracy and truth

5. The main conflict of Ellison's original story revolves around
(a) imperialism
(b) national poverty
(c) racial tension
(d) problems associated with war

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Ellison, which of the following is important for perseverance?

3. Ellison's original story was written about which of the following?

4. What does the narrator credit for his "call to action"?

5. According to Ellison, for what have African Americans historically had to fight?

(see the answer key)

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