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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator get invited to participate in the Battle Royal?

2. What does the narrator feel was his primary fault 20 years earlier?

3. How does the narrator regard Mr. Bledsoe?

4. What does the narrator discuss with the woman in his dream?

5. According to Ellison, which of the following is true during times of war?

(see the answer key)

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