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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator's meeting with Sybil backfire?
(a) She has no clue regarding the political purpose of the Brotherhood
(b) She is planning to tell Jack about his actions
(c) She wants to help him, but expects to share in his success
(d) He pretends he is trying to seduce her, but she doesn't resist.

2. What does the unnamed man at the party ask the narrator to do?
(a) dance
(b) sign a commitment
(c) sing a spiritual
(d) give a speech

3. What does the figurine symbolize?
(a) racism
(b) freedom
(c) slavery
(d) money

4. What awakens the narrator in Chapter 15?
(a) Someone pounding at the door.
(b) The smell of breakfast cooking.
(c) The sound of people talking.
(d) People banging on the steam line because there is no heat.

5. Why does the narrator try to hide the figurine from Mary?
(a) Because he is trying to steal it
(b) Because he wants to take it to the Brotherhood
(c) Because he has broken it
(d) Because he thinks it is unworthy of her

6. Who had predicted the narrator's relationship with the white woman?
(a) Brother Jack
(b) The veteran doctor at the Golden Day
(c) Dr. Bledsoe
(d) Brother Hambro

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

8. What happens when the narrator wears the sunglasses?
(a) People cannot identify him
(b) People think he is Rinehart
(c) People think is is Brother Maceo
(d) The bartender kicks him out for possession of a knife

9. What is the narrator accused of when he tries to dispose of the figurine?
(a) theft
(b) drug dealing
(c) stupidity
(d) littering

10. What do the yams symbolize?
(a) The narrator's future
(b) The narrator's past
(c) The narrator's ability to please himself
(d) The purity of the old south

11. What does the narrator spontaneously decide to buy?
(a) a newspaper in hopes that it will explain recent events
(b) a pair of new shoes
(c) a black dancing doll
(d) a new suit

12. Why does the narrator consider his funeral speech a failure?
(a) He hadn't been able to talk about political issues.
(b) He hadn't been able to inspire the crowd to fight.
(c) He didn't think about singing the song before the old black man started it
(d) He had too little to say to the youth.

13. What decision does the narrator accept for the time period that will be needed to clear the charges against him?
(a) He insist on the continuation of his activities
(b) He decides to go out on his own.
(c) He agrees to become inactive
(d) He agrees to speak on the Woman Question

14. 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

15. What apparent warning meets the narrator upon his return to Harlem
(a) sounds of distant shouting
(b) falling bird droppings
(c) The red light on the church spire
(d) breaking glass

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator unable to say much about Clifton?

2. The narrator has learned that a person must approach the world with

3. Why does the narrator remain in his hole for a long while?

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

5. Through his experiences, what has the narrator learned to value?

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