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

2. What is happening in Harlem?
(a) The people have burned down the district office
(b) The police have taken over.
(c) The Brotherhood has taken over.
(d) The community is in a riot

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

4. Who does the narrator plan to use to destroy the Brotherhood
(a) Emma
(b) Mr. Emerson
(c) Jack himself
(d) Mr. Hambro

5. How does the narrator's meeting with Sybil backfire?
(a) She is planning to tell Jack about his actions
(b) She wants to help him, but expects to share in his success
(c) She has no clue regarding the political purpose of the Brotherhood
(d) He pretends he is trying to seduce her, but she doesn't resist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator react to the dolls that are being sold by Clifton?

2. What does the unnamed man at the party ask the narrator to do?

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

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

5. Why was Brother Tarp on a chain gang?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe one of the roles played by Rinehart.

7. What is meant by "white fever"?

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

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

10. Why does Brother Jack defend the narrator at this point?

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