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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When has the narrator made most of his mistakes?
(a) When he has stepped away from the ruling group
(b) When he has questioned other people's motives
(c) When he has failed to follow orders
(d) When he tried to follow other people's plans

2. Which of the following is true about the narrator's position within the Brotherhood?
(a) He is actually powerless
(b) He has earned a lot of respect and status
(c) He is an accepted leader
(d) He is secretly admired

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

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

5. How does the Brotherhood regard the dolls Clifton had been selling?
(a) as ridiculous and overpriced
(b) as a racial slur
(c) as an unauthorized act of independence
(d) as a personal hobby that the narrator should have ignored

6. 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 article in a magazine that resulted from a personal interview with the narrator
(d) The chain on the narrator's desk

7. What is the symbolic association of the arena in Chapter 16?
(a) a famous boxer lost his sight
(b) a crooked politician had been exposed
(c) people of both colors gather there
(d) a famous black speaker was killed there

8. What is it that people like Jack, Bledsoe and Norton have refused to do?
(a) Recognize the American identity of all of her people
(b) Recognize the uncontrollable power of a group
(c) Recognize the importance of each individual
(d) Recognize equality among all individuals

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

10. Although the narrator may not realize it, he is searching for
(a) justice
(b) identity
(c) wealth
(d) power

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

12. Who does the narrator plan to use to destroy the Brotherhood
(a) Jack himself
(b) Mr. Emerson
(c) Mr. Hambro
(d) Emma

13. What does the narrator notice at the funeral that he would like to exploit?
(a) The large attendance on the part of the youth`
(b) The absence of the Brotherhood
(c) The carelessness of the policemen
(d) The tension of the crowd

14. How is the narrator's preparations for the evening with Sybil ironic?
(a) He tries to copy Rinehart whom he has never actually seen.
(b) Sybil had already made her own preparations
(c) The evening would be a disaster anyway
(d) Sybil would be useless to him.

15. When is a person most invisible?
(a) When he exists outside of history
(b) When he simply accepts the rule of the group
(c) When he refuses to mingle with the group
(d) When his social group decides to ignore him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is ironic about the narrator's dance with Emma?

3. How does the narrator get out of playing along in Sybil's rape fantasy?

4. What does the narrator spontaneously decide to buy?

5. What decision does the narrator accept for the time period that will be needed to clear the charges against him?

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