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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two groups of people must pay the price for being irresponsible?
(a) sleepwalkers and dreamers
(b) lazy people and cowards
(c) idealists and cowards
(d) dreamer and cowards

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

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

4. Ellison himself was a member of which branch of the military?
(a) airforce
(b) navy
(c) Merchant Marines
(d) army

5. What does the narrator credit for his "call to action"?
(a) the girl in his dream
(b) music
(c) marijuana
(d) his vision

Short Answer Questions

1. What truth does the vet tell to the narrator that the narrator does not yet understand?

2. What does the moon symbolize?

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

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

5. The veteran doctor claims to have been beaten for what?

(see the answer key)

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