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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 do the elderly couple want to do that the marshals deny them?
(a) Return to the apartment for a last prayer
(b) Return to the apartment for something they forgot
(c) Remain in their apartment
(d) Give their belongings to people in the crowd

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

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

4. What do the yams symbolize?
(a) The narrator's future
(b) The purity of the old south
(c) The narrator's past
(d) The narrator's ability to please himself

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator's anger is primarily focuses against

2. Who is Rinehart?

3. What object does Mary own that the narrator finds offensive?

4. When has the narrator made most of his mistakes?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why the "woman question" is typical of the Brotherhood's approach to issues.

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

3. Why does Brother Jack defend the narrator at this point?

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

5. The narrator says that he has learned that the lack of surprise is a warning. What does he mean?

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

7. Brother Jack refers to Clifton as Brutus? How does the metaphor fit the situation?

8. Describe one of the roles played by Rinehart.

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

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

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