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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 Brotherhood regard Clifton?
(a) As a faceless member
(b) As a martyr
(c) As a traitor
(d) As a hero
2. What surprising development does the narrator experience when he attends a committee meeting?
(a) He is urged to speak
(b) He is ordered to sever his membership
(c) He is accused of betrayal
(d) He is refused admission
3. What apparent warning meets the narrator upon his return to Harlem
(a) sounds of distant shouting
(b) The red light on the church spire
(c) breaking glass
(d) falling bird droppings
4. What does the figurine symbolize?
(a) slavery
(b) freedom
(c) money
(d) racism
5. What had the narrator's grandfather learned to accept?
(a) The destiny of his race
(b) The futility of fighting the ruling majority
(c) Humanity
(d) The situation placed upon him by whites
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the narrator consider his funeral speech a failure?
2. What assumption does Mary make regarding the source of the $100 given to her by the narrator?
3. What realization does the narrator have in Chapter 21?
4. What is in the narrator's briefcase?
5. The narrator believes the Brotherhood will destroy itself. Why?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do Dupre and his men choose a particular building to burn?
2. How does the narrator really feel about the gift of the chain from Brother Tarp?
3. What puzzling irony does the narrator tell us about the human race?
4. The narrator says that he has learned that the lack of surprise is a warning. What does he mean?
5. Why is Ras' anger ironic?
6. Explain the initial results of the narrator's strategy of "yessing" them to death.
7. What is meant by "white fever"?
8. How do we know at this point that the lobotomy has not been completely successful in changing the narrator's personality?
9. What is the significance of the black thread that controls the dancing doll?
10. In what way could the new shoes be symbolic?
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