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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) Watch for opportunities to get close to people like Norton
(b) Stay away from people like Mr. Norton
(c) Defy people like Norton
(d) Find ways to manipulate people like Norton

2. What, ironically, makes the narrator's white bosses distrustful of him?
(a) his attitude
(b) his color
(c) his background and education
(d) his lack of experience

3. What does the narrator lack in Chapter 12?
(a) A sense of direction
(b) his interest in returning to college
(c) money to live on
(d) motivation to keep going

4. Ellison's original story was written about which of the following?
(a) An African American pilot
(b) An African American author
(c) A slave
(d) A sharecropper

5. What truth does the vet tell to the narrator that the narrator does not yet understand?
(a) That the white men are trying to destroy him
(b) That he should not be afraid of white men
(c) That he is doomed to failure
(d) That he is invisible

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of speeches has the narrator given from the stage in the chapel?

2. What was the topic of the narrator's graduation day speech?

3. What two groups of people must pay the price for being irresponsible?

4. Which of the following is true about the narrator's position within the Brotherhood?

5. After whom does the narrator say he wants to pattern himself?

(see the answer key)

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