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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator purchase in Chapter 13 that reminds him of home?
(a) a newspaper
(b) a picture
(c) pork sausage and grits
(d) a yam

2. The main conflict of Ellison's original story revolves around
(a) racial tension
(b) problems associated with war
(c) imperialism
(d) national poverty

3. How did the narrator get invited to participate in the Battle Royal?
(a) He volunteered because it looked interesting.
(b) He thought it was part of the award.
(c) The people who arranged the speech planned to include him.
(d) He happened to be at the hotel to give a speech to white men.

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

5. According to Reverend Barbee, why does Dr. Bledsoe enjoy a position of apparent power?
(a) Dr. Bledsoe had performed favors for the Founder.
(b) The Founder and Bledsoe were related.
(c) The Founder told Reverend Barbee that Bledsoe deserved the position.
(d) The Founder, with his dying breath, asked Bledsoe to continue in his leadership

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator's need to give speeches is an example of what literary device?

3. Whose words does the narrator contemplate as proof that he can have two identities and still be successful?

4. The concept of the character as invisible is symbolic of which of the following conditions?

5. Ellison's original story was written about which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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