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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 discover when he gets to the woman's apartment?
(a) her husband is dead
(b) Her husband is away
(c) the woman is single
(d) the woman is divorced

2. Brother Jack wants the narrator to avoid underestimating what?
(a) the size of the organization
(b) the influence of the organization
(c) the power of the organization
(d) the discipline of the organization

3. With what animal does the narrator compare Brother Jack?
(a) a toy bull terrior
(b) a wolf
(c) a snake
(d) a bull dog

4. The narrator believes the Brotherhood will destroy itself. Why?
(a) Because it is hurting the people it pretends to help
(b) Because the members are fighting among themselves
(c) Because it is blind to its own lack of real purpose
(d) Because it has no real direction

5. The narrator's anger is primarily focuses against
(a) Mr. Norton
(b) The Founder
(c) Himself
(d) Dr. Bledsoe

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does the Brotherhood claim to work?

2. What is it that people like Jack, Bledsoe and Norton have refused to do?

3. What had the narrator's grandfather learned to accept?

4. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?

5. What awakens the narrator in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe one of the roles played by Rinehart.

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

5. What is meant by "white fever"?

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

7. Why is Ras' anger ironic?

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

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

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

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