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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator lack in Chapter 12?
(a) money to live on
(b) A sense of direction
(c) his interest in returning to college
(d) motivation to keep going

2. Why does the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?
(a) Someone distracts Reverend Barbee
(b) Reverend Barbee isn't watching where he is going.
(c) Reverend Barbee is blind.
(d) Dr. Bledsoe forgets to pull his legs back

3. What kind of speeches has the narrator given from the stage in the chapel?
(a) Speeches that flattered the whites.
(b) Phony speeches with notes supplied by white men.
(c) Speeches that expressed his frustration in cultural symbolism.
(d) Genuine speeches that expressed how he felt.

4. Why is Brockway hostile toward the narrator?
(a) The narrator approaches him with a bad attitude.
(b) He thinks the narrator is there to take his job.
(c) The narrator has difficulty following instructions.
(d) He has heard of the narrator's mistake.

5. What would the narrator like to add to his "hole"?
(a) a TV set
(b) a kitchen
(c) four more radio-phonographs
(d) a phonograph player

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the students as they enter the chapel?

2. What does the narrator tell Mr. Emerson that he wants to do with his future?

3. Why is the narrator offended by the man behind the drugstore counter?

4. What does Dr. Bledsoe call the narrator?

5. What do some of the black men carry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the narrator doomed to fail at the paint factory?

2. Describe Dr. Bledsoe.

3. What mistake does the veteran doctor predict the narrator will make?

4. What does Mary Rambo want the narrator to do?

5. What literary device is used in Chapter 4?

6. What surprises the narrator upon his arrival in Harlem?

7. Who are the sleeping ones?

8. What is the objective of Rev. Barbee's sermon?

9. Why do the people at the Men's House treat him with hostility?

10. How was the narrator's graduation speech a betrayal of black people?

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