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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the yams symbolize?
(a) The narrator's ability to please himself
(b) The narrator's future
(c) The narrator's past
(d) The purity of the old south

2. What is ironic about the narrator's dance with Emma?
(a) He had at first refused the offer to dance with her.
(b) The veteran doctor had predicted that the narrator would dance with a white woman.
(c) He is the only black man she dances with at the party.
(d) She is the first white woman he ever danced with.

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

4. Why does the narrator have difficulty getting along on his first two jobs?
(a) He is not correctly educated for the job
(b) He is the only black person on the job
(c) He doesn't understand or fit in the blue-collar/union world
(d) He is too highly educated for the job

5. What does Dr. Bledsoe call the narrator?
(a) an educated fool
(b) a liar
(c) a traitor
(d) a slave

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the narrator may not realize it, he is searching for

2. What do some of the black men carry?

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

4. How does the vet react when Mr. Norton tries to explain his interest in the college?

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

(see the answer key)

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