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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the students as they enter the chapel?
(a) They enter the chapel with resentment and fear.
(b) They enter with the love a captured people has for their conquerors.
(c) They enter with dread and hesitation.
(d) They enter the chapel joyfully.

2. What horrifying sight does the narrator see as he flees the riot?
(a) The destruction of his membership
(b) The slaughter of blacks by the police
(c) Seven naked manniquins hanging over the street
(d) The body of Sybil

3. What two groups of people must pay the price for being irresponsible?
(a) idealists and cowards
(b) lazy people and cowards
(c) sleepwalkers and dreamers
(d) dreamer and cowards

4. Why does the narrator not tell the doctors his name after the procedure?
(a) He doesn't realize that he hasn't said anything
(b) He is trying to protect himself
(c) He is too tired
(d) He can't remember it.

5. What does the narrator fear is the reason for his inability to get an appointment with the trustees?
(a) He fears there may not be any jobs after all.
(b) He thinks the secretaries are not telling him the truth.
(c) He thinks no one is seeing the letters he submitted.
(d) He fears a conspiracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator afraid of losing?

2. What is Trueblood's explanation of the rape of his daughter?

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

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

5. How does Mr. Norton explain the day's events?

(see the answer key)

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