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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. Why does the narrator try to hide the figurine from Mary?
(a) Because he thinks it is unworthy of her
(b) Because he has broken it
(c) Because he wants to take it to the Brotherhood
(d) Because he is trying to steal it

2. What is it that people like Jack, Bledsoe and Norton have refused to do?
(a) Recognize equality among all individuals
(b) Recognize the importance of each individual
(c) Recognize the American identity of all of her people
(d) Recognize the uncontrollable power of a group

3. What truth does the narrator discover about Brother Jack?
(a) He does not really believe in the Brotherhood
(b) He is a devotee of Dr. Bledsoe
(c) He is a pawn of the white people
(d) He has a glass eye

4. Why does the narrator decide against using Emma in his plans?
(a) She is too knowledgable in the art of intrigue and would figure out what he was doing
(b) She was too close to Jack
(c) She would probably not be willing to go against the party
(d) She has her own agenda

5. What vision comes to the narrator's mind when he sees the elderly couple being evicted?
(a) His mother hanging out the wash
(b) Mr. Trueblood's two pregnant women
(c) His grandfather on his death bed
(d) the Battle Royal

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true about the narrator's position within the Brotherhood?

2. What is the symbolic association of the arena in Chapter 16?

3. What kind of day is it on the day of Clifton's funeral?

4. When the woman says the narrator's voice is "primitive," she actually intends the statement as

5. How does the narrator get out of playing along in Sybil's rape fantasy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the primary problem with the instructions given to the narrator to gather more members?

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

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

5. Why is the narrator's work on the "woman question" cut short?

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

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

8. Describe one of the roles played by Rinehart.

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

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

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