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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?
(a) A hundred dollar bill
(b) A lecture on morality
(c) A bottle of whiskey
(d) Nothing

2. What does the doctor mean when he says they "picked poor robin clean"?
(a) They have damaged the narrator's personality
(b) They have eliminated any possibility of getting a job.
(c) They have taken all the narrator's money.
(d) They have completely destroyed the narrator's memories

3. Where does the narrator find himself in chapter 11?
(a) a mental ward
(b) a prison
(c) a hospital
(d) the factory hospital

4. What does the narrator fear is the reason for his inability to get an appointment with the trustees?
(a) He thinks no one is seeing the letters he submitted.
(b) He fears there may not be any jobs after all.
(c) He fears a conspiracy.
(d) He thinks the secretaries are not telling him the truth.

5. What does the cord in chapter 11 symbolize?
(a) rebirth
(b) loss
(c) separation
(d) isolation

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?

2. How does the narrator describe the students as they enter the chapel?

3. What does the narrator notice about the whites in the city?

4. What fault does Emma find with the narrator?

5. After whom does the narrator say he wants to pattern himself?

(see the answer key)

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