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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With what animal does the narrator compare Brother Jack?
(a) a toy bull terrior
(b) a snake
(c) a bull dog
(d) a wolf

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

5. Why does the narrator decide against using Emma in his plans?
(a) She has her own agenda
(b) She would probably not be willing to go against the party
(c) She is too knowledgable in the art of intrigue and would figure out what he was doing
(d) She was too close to Jack

6. What does the narrator purchase in Chapter 13 that reminds him of home?
(a) a newspaper
(b) a yam
(c) a picture
(d) pork sausage and grits

7. 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 equality among all individuals
(d) Recognize the importance of each individual

8. What is ironic about the narrator's dance with Emma?
(a) The veteran doctor had predicted that the narrator would dance with a white woman.
(b) He is the only black man she dances with at the party.
(c) She is the first white woman he ever danced with.
(d) He had at first refused the offer to dance with her.

9. How does the narrator portray himself at the end of Chapter 22?
(a) As determined and bold
(b) As proud and defiant
(c) As humbled and obedient
(d) As confused and frustrated

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

11. For whom does the Brotherhood claim to work?
(a) Black people
(b) White people
(c) all people
(d) Those of their own party

12. What makes the narrator think that his night with the white woman was a trap?
(a) Other women seem to want to
(b) He dimly remembers the appearance of another man
(c) The Brotherhood is mysteriously silent regarding his activities
(d) The woman does not want him to return

13. Through his experiences, what has the narrator learned to value?
(a) power
(b) Independence
(c) Diversity
(d) Unity

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

15. Why was Brother Tarp on a chain gang?
(a) Because he had lied to white people
(b) Because he had dared to say the word no.
(c) Because he had betrayed his people
(d) Because he had betrayed his white master

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Brotherhood regard Clifton?

2. What does Brother Tarp give the narrator in Chapter 18?

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

4. Why does the narrator try to hide the figurine from Mary?

5. What is the symbolic association of the arena in Chapter 16?

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