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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the elderly couple want to do that the marshals deny them?
(a) Return to the apartment for a last prayer
(b) Give their belongings to people in the crowd
(c) Return to the apartment for something they forgot
(d) Remain in their apartment

2. Why does the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?
(a) Reverend Barbee isn't watching where he is going.
(b) Dr. Bledsoe forgets to pull his legs back
(c) Reverend Barbee is blind.
(d) Someone distracts Reverend Barbee

3. Why do certain members of the Brotherhood consider that narrator's speech unsatisfactory?
(a) The logical arguments were faulty
(b) It was too cold and general
(c) It was too emotional
(d) The narrator used science and rationalization instead of real feeling

4. Who else is on the bus to New York?
(a) Mr. Trueblood
(b) the veteran doctor
(c) another student
(d) no one

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ellison himself was a member of which branch of the military?

3. What does the narrator notice at the funeral that he would like to exploit?

4. What does the narrator discover when he gets to the woman's apartment?

5. What is most unusual about the narrator's residence?

(see the answer key)

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