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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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, with his dying breath, asked Bledsoe to continue in his leadership
(c) The Founder and Bledsoe were related.
(d) The Founder told Reverend Barbee that Bledsoe deserved the position.

2. Who had predicted the narrator's relationship with the white woman?
(a) The veteran doctor at the Golden Day
(b) Brother Jack
(c) Brother Hambro
(d) Dr. Bledsoe

3. Why is the narrator offended by the man behind the drugstore counter?
(a) The man overcharges him.
(b) The man assumes will order the special of pork chops, grits, one egg, biscuits, and coffee.
(c) The man does not give him what he orders.
(d) The man wants to see his money before serving him.

4. Brother Jack wants the narrator to avoid underestimating what?
(a) the size of the organization
(b) the power of the organization
(c) the influence of the organization
(d) the discipline of the organization

5. How does the narrator react to the dolls that are being sold by Clifton?
(a) He calls the police
(b) He purchases a doll
(c) He spits on one of the dolls
(d) He laughs at the dolls

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator get invited to participate in the Battle Royal?

2. What, ironically, makes the narrator's white bosses distrustful of him?

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

4. What makes the narrator think that his night with the white woman was a trap?

5. The image of the slave owners bidding for a naked girl is

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