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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 spontaneously decide to buy?
(a) a newspaper in hopes that it will explain recent events
(b) a pair of new shoes
(c) a new suit
(d) a black dancing doll

2. The narrator has learned that a person must approach the world with
(a) Both love and hate
(b) determination and courage
(c) subtlety and reserve
(d) intelligence and ingenuity

3. What does Brother Tarp give the narrator in Chapter 18?
(a) a warning
(b) a secret message
(c) a key to handcuffs
(d) a piece of the chain he once wore

4. 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 as a means to get even with Bledsoe
(d) Use it to restore those who have been dispossessed

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What vision comes to the narrator's mind when he sees the elderly couple being evicted?

2. What fault does Emma find with the narrator?

3. Why does the narrator remain in his hole for a long while?

4. How does the narrator react to the dolls that are being sold by Clifton?

5. Why does the narrator go to the white woman's apartment in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is meant by "white fever"?

3. How does the narrator really feel about the gift of the chain from Brother Tarp?

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

5. In what way could the new shoes be symbolic?

6. Describe one of the roles played by Rinehart.

7. How does Emma's conversation create a sense of foreboding?

8. What was the narrator's real problem, and how has he settled it?

9. To what does Brother Tarp attribute the warning letter?

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

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