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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Ras the Exhorter primarily object?
(a) Clifton's methods of leading the youth
(b) The idea of a black man speaking out for white people
(c) The narrator's street corner approach
(d) The mixing of black and white

2. Where does Bledsoe tell the narrator to go?
(a) to Mr. Norton
(b) New York
(c) back to the dormatory
(d) back to the Golden Day for the name of the doctor

3. What would the narrator like to add to his "hole"?
(a) a phonograph player
(b) a kitchen
(c) a TV set
(d) four more radio-phonographs

4. What truth does the vet tell to the narrator that the narrator does not yet understand?
(a) That he is invisible
(b) That the white men are trying to destroy him
(c) That he should not be afraid of white men
(d) That he is doomed to failure

5. Why is the narrator unable to see Mr. Bates?
(a) Mr. Bates is too busy to be seen.
(b) The secretary will not admit him.
(c) Mr. Bates is not in.
(d) There are no jobs in Mr. Bates' department

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two concepts, in combination, does Ellison see as a "raft of hope."

2. What do the elderly couple want to do that the marshals deny them?

3. When the narrator goes to see Mr. Emerson, who does he actually see?

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

5. What fault does Emma find with the narrator?

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