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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator afraid of losing?
(a) His scholarship
(b) His job.
(c) The respect Mr. Bledsoe has for him.
(d) His identity

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

3. What does the narrator tell Mr. Emerson that he wants to do with his future?
(a) remain quietly in New York
(b) get a high paying position in the city
(c) become Mr. Bledsoe's assistant
(d) become a teacher

4. Why does the narrator run after making his speech on behalf of the elderly couple?
(a) He doesn't want to be confronted for making a speech.
(b) A white girl tells him to run, and he obeys even though he isn't exactly sure why.
(c) He sees the police coming and thinks they are after him.
(d) He thinks the crowd is after him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the yams symbolize?

2. The dark tunnel is symbolic of the narrator's

3. According to Ellison, for what have African Americans historically had to fight?

4. Why is the narrator unable to see Mr. Bates?

5. Why was Brother Tarp on a chain gang?

(see the answer key)

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