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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) Clifton's methods of leading the youth
(b) The narrator's street corner approach
(c) The mixing of black and white
(d) The idea of a black man speaking out for white people

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

3. What realization does the narrator have in Chapter 21?
(a) That the Brotherhood does not really care about people
(b) That the Brotherhood has its own agenda
(c) That the members of the crowd are individuals
(d) That the Brotherhood is just using him.

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

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

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

7. How does the audience react to the narrator's speech?
(a) They get up and leave.
(b) They sit in stunned silence
(c) He is booed
(d) He is cheered

8. What is in the narrator's briefcase?
(a) his green spectacles
(b) Mary's bank
(c) a white hat
(d) his cash

9. What had the narrator's grandfather learned to accept?
(a) The futility of fighting the ruling majority
(b) Humanity
(c) The situation placed upon him by whites
(d) The destiny of his race

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

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

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

13. What does Brother Tod Clifton do?
(a) He is a minister
(b) lead the youth of the Brotherhood
(c) He is a fanatic ideologies who teaches newcomers.
(d) He is a black nationalist

14. Why does the narrator decide against using Emma in his plans?
(a) She was too close to Jack
(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 has her own agenda

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Brother Tarp on a chain gang?

2. What time of day does Brother Jack meet the narrator in the beginning of Chapter 17

3. How does the narrator plan to overcome the white men of the Brotherhood?

4. What surprising development does the narrator experience when he attends a committee meeting?

5. Which of the following is true about the narrator's position within the Brotherhood?

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