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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator lack in Chapter 12?
(a) his interest in returning to college
(b) A sense of direction
(c) motivation to keep going
(d) money to live on

2. What does the narrator want to do in Chapter 12?
(a) spend time alone
(b) make speeches
(c) get a new job
(d) marry Mary Rambo

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

4. Why does Mary Rambo want to take the narrator home?
(a) She needs the company
(b) To take care of him
(c) She is in love with him
(d) To take advantage of him

5. Why does the narrator dump slush on a man's head?
(a) The man was preaching nonsense.
(b) He thinks the man is Bledsoe.
(c) The man greeted him with hostility.
(d) The man insulted him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The narrator's need to give speeches is an example of what literary device?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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