1. How does the narrator excuse his lack of responsibility?
(a) Responsibility cannot happen without recognition
(b) No one has ever given him responsibility
(c) Because he is invisible, he doesn't know what responsibility to take
(d) The downtrodden should not be expected to assume responsibility

2. What does Westrum use as evidence that the narrator is only trying to promote himself?
(a) The narrator's refusal to conduct business the way Westrum wanted it.
(b) The repeated meetings with Hambro
(c) The chain on the narrator's desk
(d) The article in a magazine that resulted from a personal interview with the narrator

3. What makes the narrator think that his night with the white woman was a trap?
(a) The woman does not want him to return
(b) Other women seem to want to
(c) The Brotherhood is mysteriously silent regarding his activities
(d) He dimly remembers the appearance of another man

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

5. The narrator wants to learn everything he can about the Brotherhood in order to
(a) Use it to achieve power for himself
(b) Use it as a means to get even with Bledsoe
(c) Use it to create equality for black people
(d) Use it to restore those who have been dispossessed