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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brother Jack wants the narrator to avoid underestimating what?
(a) the power of the organization
(b) the influence of the organization
(c) the size of the organization
(d) the discipline of the organization

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

3. Whose words does the narrator contemplate as proof that he can have two identities and still be successful?
(a) The words of Dr. Bledsoe
(b) The words of Saul and Paul
(c) The words of Frederick Douglass
(d) His grandfather's words

4. The narrator believes the Brotherhood will destroy itself. Why?
(a) Because the members are fighting among themselves
(b) Because it has no real direction
(c) Because it is hurting the people it pretends to help
(d) Because it is blind to its own lack of real purpose

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

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

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

8. The narrator becomes dizzy at the thought that true saviors might actually be where?
(a) disguised in the literature books
(b) in the history books
(c) crippled within the limits of organizations
(d) outside history

9. The narrator wants to learn everything he can about the Brotherhood in order to
(a) Use it as a means to get even with Bledsoe
(b) Use it to create equality for black people
(c) Use it to achieve power for himself
(d) Use it to restore those who have been dispossessed

10. Why is Brother Westrum opposed to the piece of chain on the narrator's desk?
(a) Because it symbolically denies the possibility of equality
(b) Because it shows a tendency to cling to the past
(c) Because it is a reminder of slavery
(d) Because it shows difference instead of unity

11. 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.

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

13. Why is the narrator unable to see his audience when he gives his speech at the arena?
(a) He is blinded by lights
(b) He has to speak from behind a curtain.
(c) They are too far away.
(d) The auditorium is too dim.

14. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?
(a) Brother Clifton
(b) Brother Jack
(c) Brother Westrum
(d) Brother Hambro

15. What does Dupre want to do prior to starting the fire?
(a) have the fire department standing by
(b) give people a chance to get their belongings
(c) contact the newspapers
(d) Make sure the building is evacuated

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, why is Mary cooking cabbage?

2. What does the narrator discover about Jack?

3. How does the narrator react to the dolls that are being sold by Clifton?

4. What does the figurine symbolize?

5. What does the narrator spontaneously decide to buy?

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