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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Mr. Norton explain the day's events?
(a) He has no explanation.
(b) He says the trip was the narrator's idea.
(c) He claims the narrator took advantage of his (Norton's) illness
(d) He says the narrator was not responsible.

4. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?
(a) They secretly enjoyed hearing his story.
(b) They didn't believe his story.
(c) They were horrified by his story and tried to get him to move.
(d) They were angry and kept him in town as an example of how not to behave.

5. What does the narrator feel was his primary fault 20 years earlier?
(a) He was cowardly.
(b) He was easily confused.
(c) He was naive.
(d) He was too bold.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following two concepts, in combination, does Ellison see as a "raft of hope."

4. The dark tunnel is symbolic of the narrator's

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

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