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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?
(a) A lecture on morality
(b) A hundred dollar bill
(c) A bottle of whiskey
(d) Nothing

2. How does the narrator regard Mr. Bledsoe?
(a) As an enemy
(b) As an unpredictable element
(c) As a role model.
(d) As a protector

3. Why does the vet want the narrator to hear his story?
(a) So the narrator will return to the Golden Day
(b) So the narrator will persuade Mr. Norton to give a donation
(c) So the narrator will take up the cause of the vets
(d) So the narrator will not become another casualty

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

5. What bit of advice from the young Mr. Emerson does the narrator actually heed?
(a) to call Liberty Paints and ask for a job
(b) to forget about Mr. Bledsoe
(c) to return to the college
(d) to realize that he has no identity

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the real purpose of the Reverend's speech?

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

3. How does Mr. Norton explain the day's events?

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

5. Why is Brockway hostile toward the narrator?

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