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

2. What happens when the narrator wears the sunglasses?
(a) People think he is Rinehart
(b) People cannot identify him
(c) People think is is Brother Maceo
(d) The bartender kicks him out for possession of a knife

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

4. Why was Brother Tarp on a chain gang?
(a) Because he had lied to white people
(b) Because he had betrayed his white master
(c) Because he had dared to say the word no.
(d) Because he had betrayed his people

5. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?
(a) Brother Jack
(b) Brother Clifton
(c) Brother Hambro
(d) Brother Westrum

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rinehart?

2. How does the Brotherhood regard Clifton?

3. How does the narrator portray himself at the end of Chapter 22?

4. What surprising development does the narrator experience when he attends a committee meeting?

5. The narrator has learned that a person must approach the world with

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ras' anger ironic?

2. What strikes the narrator as the profound truth about the riot?

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

4. What is the narrator's intention in speaking up for the black couple who have been evicted?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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