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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 Jack
(b) Brother Hambro
(c) Dr. Bledsoe
(d) The veteran doctor at the Golden Day

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

3. When the woman says the narrator's voice is "primitive," she actually intends the statement as
(a) a compliment
(b) a word of advice
(c) an insult
(d) a gesture of seduction

4. According to Reverend Barbee, why does Dr. Bledsoe enjoy a position of apparent power?
(a) Dr. Bledsoe had performed favors for the Founder.
(b) The Founder, with his dying breath, asked Bledsoe to continue in his leadership
(c) The Founder and Bledsoe were related.
(d) The Founder told Reverend Barbee that Bledsoe deserved the position.

5. What does the narrator discover when he gets to the woman's apartment?
(a) Her husband is away
(b) the woman is divorced
(c) the woman is single
(d) her husband is dead

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary Rambo want to take the narrator home?

2. What does the moon symbolize?

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

4. What does the narrator lack in Chapter 12?

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

(see the answer key)

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