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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator's anger is primarily focuses against
(a) The Founder
(b) Himself
(c) Dr. Bledsoe
(d) Mr. Norton

2. For whom does the Brotherhood claim to work?
(a) White people
(b) Black people
(c) all people
(d) Those of their own party

3. Ellison's original story was written about which of the following?
(a) A slave
(b) A sharecropper
(c) An African American author
(d) An African American pilot

4. What is the narrator's explanation for taking Mr. Norton to the Golden Day?
(a) Mr. Norton was driving
(b) He thought he could get medical help there
(c) The car was out of gas.
(d) Mr. Norton ordered him to go there

5. How does Mr. Norton explain the day's events?
(a) He has no explanation.
(b) He says the narrator was not responsible.
(c) He claims the narrator took advantage of his (Norton's) illness
(d) He says the trip was the narrator's idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vision comes to the narrator's mind when he sees the elderly couple being evicted?

2. According to Mr. Brockway, what happened when the company tried to replace him?

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

4. What group of society is represented by the white men at the Battle Royal?

5. What does Dr. Bledsoe call the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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