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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the vet's final advice to the narrator?
(a) Find ways to manipulate people like Norton
(b) Watch for opportunities to get close to people like Norton
(c) Stay away from people like Mr. Norton
(d) Defy people like Norton

2. What unexpected sight does the narrator see in New York?
(a) many policemen
(b) half-naked white women
(c) many black people
(d) people from many nationalities

3. What does the narrator discover when he gets to the woman's apartment?
(a) her husband is dead
(b) Her husband is away
(c) the woman is divorced
(d) the woman is single

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) He thinks the crowd is after him.
(c) A white girl tells him to run, and he obeys even though he isn't exactly sure why.
(d) He sees the police coming and thinks they are after him.

5. Ellison's primary struggle in writing the book was
(a) Allowing the hero to fail
(b) Finding a way for the hero to succeed.
(c) Giving the hero sufficient depth of character
(d) Accepting the concept that nothing could really be done to change society

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the narrator like to add to his "hole"?

2. What do some of the black men carry?

3. Although the narrator may not realize it, he is searching for

4. What does Brother Tod Clifton do?

5. How does the narrator's grandfather regard his own meekness?

(see the answer key)

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