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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 fear is the reason for his inability to get an appointment with the trustees?
(a) He thinks the secretaries are not telling him the truth.
(b) He fears a conspiracy.
(c) He fears there may not be any jobs after all.
(d) He thinks no one is seeing the letters he submitted.

2. According to Reverend Barbee, why does Dr. Bledsoe enjoy a position of apparent power?
(a) The Founder, with his dying breath, asked Bledsoe to continue in his leadership
(b) Dr. Bledsoe had performed favors for the Founder.
(c) The Founder told Reverend Barbee that Bledsoe deserved the position.
(d) The Founder and Bledsoe were related.

3. Where is the vet going?
(a) an undisclosed location
(b) Canada
(c) New York
(d) Washington DC

4. Why does the narrator not tell the doctors his name after the procedure?
(a) He is too tired
(b) He is trying to protect himself
(c) He doesn't realize that he hasn't said anything
(d) He can't remember it.

5. What makes the narrator homesick when he first gets to New York?
(a) the letters he carries
(b) the sight of other black people
(c) a message from Mr. Norton
(d) a Gideon Bible

Short Answer Questions

1. What revelation does the "Tom Show" provide for Ellison?

2. What does the narrator notice about the whites in the city?

3. What is the vet's final advice to the narrator?

4. In addition to his memories, what else has the narrator lost?

5. Ellison's original story was written about which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator expect from his visit with Mr. Bates?

3. To what kind of action has music called the narrator?

4. What literary device is used in Chapter 4?

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

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

7. Why does the narrator say he is invisible?

8. What does Dr. Bledsoe mean by "acting the nigger."

9. What does Ellison mean when he says that for African Americans, all wars are "wars within wars."

10. How does the setting in chapter 5 provide additional foreshadowing?

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