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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?
(a) Dr. Bledsoe forgets to pull his legs back
(b) Reverend Barbee is blind.
(c) Someone distracts Reverend Barbee
(d) Reverend Barbee isn't watching where he is going.

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

3. The veteran doctor claims to have been beaten for what?
(a) failing to fulfil his duty
(b) getting drunk
(c) saving a life
(d) returning to the states

4. What makes the narrator homesick when he first gets to New York?
(a) a Gideon Bible
(b) the letters he carries
(c) a message from Mr. Norton
(d) the sight of other black people

5. How is the paint symbolic?
(a) It is white, reminding the narrator of the slogan, Keep America Pure with Liberty Paints.
(b) It symbolizes society's ability to cover evils
(c) It symbolizes work and success
(d) It symbolizes purity and correctness

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator afraid of losing?

2. According to Reverend Barbee, why does Dr. Bledsoe enjoy a position of apparent power?

3. Who else is on the bus to New York?

4. How does the narrator's grandfather regard his own meekness?

5. What does the narrator notice about the whites in the city?

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