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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 awakens the narrator in Chapter 15?

2. To what does Ras the Exhorter primarily object?

3. Why does the narrator decide against using Emma in his plans?

4. Brother Jack wants the narrator to avoid underestimating what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the narrator's funeral oration more moving than if he had planned a speech based according to party guidelines?

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

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

4. Explain why the "woman question" is typical of the Brotherhood's approach to issues.

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

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

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

8. What is meant by "white fever"?

9. Explain the irony of the figurine owned by Mary.

10. What is the significance of the black thread that controls the dancing doll?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is illusion? Can illusion be imposed upon a person without his consent? Can illusion be chosen so effectively that a person believes his own fancies? Discuss which characters are choosing to be deluded. Is the delusion helping or hurting their cause?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Being invisible can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. By the end of the novel, how does the narrator intend to use his invisibility? Is the state of being invisible to the inner eye of other people something that can be changed? If so, how? If not, why not?

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