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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When has the narrator made most of his mistakes?
(a) When he has failed to follow orders
(b) When he has stepped away from the ruling group
(c) When he tried to follow other people's plans
(d) When he has questioned other people's motives

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

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

4. What object does Mary own that the narrator finds offensive?
(a) a bank in the shape of a black figurine
(b) a mask used in black rituals
(c) a distorted figurine of a black leader
(d) a figurine of a white leader

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

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

7. How does the narrator plan to overcome the white men of the Brotherhood?
(a) by standing up to them
(b) by appearing to agree with them
(c) by parting company with them
(d) by helping his own group take over the leadership positions

8. How does the narrator's meeting with Sybil backfire?
(a) She has no clue regarding the political purpose of the Brotherhood
(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 wants to help him, but expects to share in his success

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

10. 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 importance of each individual
(d) Recognize the uncontrollable power of a group

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

12. Why is the narrator unable to say much about Clifton?
(a) He had been given too little time for the speech
(b) Too much about Clifton was negative
(c) The Brotherhood had limited his topics
(d) He really didn't know much about him

13. When is a person most invisible?
(a) When he refuses to mingle with the group
(b) When he simply accepts the rule of the group
(c) When he exists outside of history
(d) When his social group decides to ignore him.

14. What surprising development does the narrator experience when he attends a committee meeting?
(a) He is ordered to sever his membership
(b) He is accused of betrayal
(c) He is urged to speak
(d) He is refused admission

15. What does the narrator discover about Jack?
(a) That Jack had been killed
(b) That Jack had actually written the earlier threatening letter.
(c) That Jack had left the Brotherhod
(d) That Jack had betrayed the Brotherhood

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ironic about the narrator's dance with Emma?

2. Through his experiences, what has the narrator learned to value?

3. What do the elderly couple want to do that the marshals deny them?

4. Whose words does the narrator contemplate as proof that he can have two identities and still be successful?

5. Where does Brother Jack send the narrator at the end of the meeting?

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