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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Ras the Exhorter primarily object?
(a) The idea of a black man speaking out for white people
(b) Clifton's methods of leading the youth
(c) The mixing of black and white
(d) The narrator's street corner approach

2. What surprises the narrator in relation to the riot?
(a) The Brotherhood had instigated it.
(b) The Brotherhood knew nothing about it.
(c) It was the inevitable end of the politics they had been preaching.
(d) He had actually been used to help cause it.

3. Why does the narrator remain in his hole for a long while?
(a) Because he is afraid the Brotherhood is still hunting for him
(b) Because he is not able to reach the manhole cover.
(c) Because he cannot determine his own intentions
(d) Because he was knocked unconscious

4. 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) His grandfather's words
(d) The words of Frederick Douglass

5. What vision comes to the narrator's mind when he sees the elderly couple being evicted?
(a) the Battle Royal
(b) His grandfather on his death bed
(c) His mother hanging out the wash
(d) Mr. Trueblood's two pregnant women

6. Who is Rinehart?
(a) a runner
(b) a preacher
(c) a gambler
(d) A mysterious man with many roles

7. How does the narrator react to the dolls that are being sold by Clifton?
(a) He purchases a doll
(b) He spits on one of the dolls
(c) He calls the police
(d) He laughs at the dolls

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

9. What is happening in Harlem?
(a) The Brotherhood has taken over.
(b) The people have burned down the district office
(c) The community is in a riot
(d) The police have taken over.

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

11. How does the Brotherhood regard Clifton?
(a) As a faceless member
(b) As a traitor
(c) As a martyr
(d) As a hero

12. The narrator wants Clifton's funeral to focus on which of the following?
(a) The meaning of his life
(b) His accomplishments as part of the Brotherhood
(c) what his loss will mean to the Brotherhood
(d) The acts that led to his death

13. 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 equality among all individuals
(c) Recognize the uncontrollable power of a group
(d) Recognize the importance of each individual

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

15. After whom does the narrator say he wants to pattern himself?
(a) Mr. Norton
(b) The Founder
(c) Booker T Washington
(d) Dr, Bledsoe

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the figurine symbolize?

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

3. What fault does Emma find with the narrator?

4. What does the narrator discover about Jack?

5. What is the narrator accused of when he tries to dispose of the figurine?

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