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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What, ironically, makes the narrator's white bosses distrustful of him?
2. What mistake does the narrator make at Liberty Paints?
3. How does the narrator regard Mr. Bledsoe?
4. According to Ellison, which of the following is true during times of war?
5. Ellison himself was a member of which branch of the military?
Short Essay Questions
1. What surprises the narrator upon his arrival in Harlem?
2. Who are the sleeping ones?
3. What does Ellison mean when he says that for African Americans, all wars are "wars within wars."
4. Explain the irony of the sign "Keep American Pure with Liberty Paints."
5. What does the narrator notice while waiting for his appointment with the trustees?
6. Describe Dr. Bledsoe.
7. What favor does the young Mr. Emerson do for the narrator?
8. Why does the drug store have the pork chop and grits special?
9. Why was the narrator doomed to fail at the paint factory?
10. Why does Mr. Norton give Jim Trueblood $100?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain why the Brotherhood chooses the narrator. What factors have made him particularly vulnerable to their approach? How do his own intentions change as he begins working with them?
Essay Topic 2
Early in the novel, the graduating black boys are deliberately used as cruel sport for the white men at a club. Norton is at the club with all the other white men. Norton does not care about the black boys any more than anyone else does. Therefore, what is his purpose at the college? Explain the things that Mr. Norton and Brother Jack have in common.
Essay Topic 3
Several times the narrator recalls his grandfather's dying words. Discuss the situations in which the narrator recalls his grandfather, showing how he reacts to those memories upon different occasions.
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