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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator see as he is watching people leave the chapel?

3. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?

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

5. Where is the vet going?

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