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

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

3. To what does Ras the Exhorter primarily object?
(a) The mixing of black and white
(b) The idea of a black man speaking out for white people
(c) Clifton's methods of leading the youth
(d) The narrator's street corner approach

4. What is in the narrator's briefcase?
(a) his green spectacles
(b) his cash
(c) a white hat
(d) Mary's bank

5. How does the narrator plan to overcome the white men of the Brotherhood?
(a) by appearing to agree with them
(b) by helping his own group take over the leadership positions
(c) by standing up to them
(d) by parting company with them

Short Answer Questions

1. What truth does the narrator discover about Brother Jack?

2. What does the narrator discover when he gets to the woman's apartment?

3. How does the audience react to the narrator's speech?

4. What does Brother Tarp give the narrator in Chapter 18?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What epiphany has the narrator experienced regarding his race?

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

5. What is meant by "white fever"?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Brother Jack really want the narrator to avoid doing?

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