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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What fault does Emma find with the narrator?
(a) He probably won't fit in with the group
(b) He isn't black enough.
(c) He has no money to contribute
(d) He is too indecisive

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

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

6. What assumption does Mary make regarding the source of the $100 given to her by the narrator?
(a) That he earned it through employment
(b) That he got it by playing the lottery
(c) That the Brotherhood gave it to him.
(d) That he was selling drugs

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Of what do the men in the bar in Chapter 20 accuse the narrator?
(a) of forgetting his
(b) of neglecting his duties
(c) Of getting White Fever
(d) of betraying the Brotherhood

14. 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.

15. The narrator's anger is primarily focuses against
(a) The Founder
(b) Himself
(c) Mr. Norton
(d) Dr. Bledsoe

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Mary own that the narrator finds offensive?

2. Who is Rinehart?

3. Why does the narrator decide against using Emma in his plans?

4. The narrator wants to learn everything he can about the Brotherhood in order to

5. What does the narrator notice at the funeral that he would like to exploit?

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