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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. 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 wants to help him, but expects to share in his success
(d) She is planning to tell Jack about his actions

2. The narrator wants to learn everything he can about the Brotherhood in order to
(a) Use it to achieve power for himself
(b) Use it to create equality for black people
(c) Use it to restore those who have been dispossessed
(d) Use it as a means to get even with Bledsoe

3. How does the narrator portray himself at the end of Chapter 22?
(a) As humbled and obedient
(b) As determined and bold
(c) As proud and defiant
(d) As confused and frustrated

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had predicted the narrator's relationship with the white woman?

2. How does the Brotherhood regard the dolls Clifton had been selling?

3. What horrifying sight does the narrator see as he flees the riot?

4. What fault does Emma find with the narrator?

5. What truth is revealed about the Brotherhood in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the irony of the figurine owned by Mary.

2. What does Brother Jack really want the narrator to avoid doing?

3. Why does Jack become angry with the man who asks the narrator to sing a "spiritual"?

4. Explain the initial results of the narrator's strategy of "yessing" them to death.

5. What is the significance of the black thread that controls the dancing doll?

6. What is the primary problem with the instructions given to the narrator to gather more members?

7. What puzzling irony does the narrator tell us about the human race?

8. Why do Dupre and his men choose a particular building to burn?

9. Identify several mistakes that the narrator makes in his first assigned speech in Harlem.

10. Why is the narrator's work on the "woman question" cut short?

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