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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had predicted the narrator's relationship with the white woman?
(a) Brother Hambro
(b) Brother Jack
(c) The veteran doctor at the Golden Day
(d) Dr. Bledsoe

2. In spite of losing his identity, what does the narrator retain?
(a) his naive outlook on life
(b) the memory of Mr. Norton
(c) an urgency to find a job
(d) a desire for revenge

3. What makes the narrator think that his night with the white woman was a trap?
(a) The Brotherhood is mysteriously silent regarding his activities
(b) The woman does not want him to return
(c) Other women seem to want to
(d) He dimly remembers the appearance of another man

4. How does the narrator describe the students as they enter the chapel?
(a) They enter the chapel joyfully.
(b) They enter with dread and hesitation.
(c) They enter with the love a captured people has for their conquerors.
(d) They enter the chapel with resentment and fear.

5. The narrator's need to give speeches is an example of what literary device?
(a) irony
(b) suspense
(c) foreshadowing
(d) audio imagery

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the real purpose of the Reverend's speech?

2. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?

3. Why does the narrator go to the white woman's apartment in Chapter 19?

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

5. Why does the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?

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