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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is most unusual about the narrator's residence?
(a) It is a white apartment house
(b) It is in a basement
(c) It is free
(d) It is filled with over 1300 light bulbs

2. What two groups of people must pay the price for being irresponsible?
(a) dreamer and cowards
(b) idealists and cowards
(c) lazy people and cowards
(d) sleepwalkers and dreamers

3. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?
(a) They secretly enjoyed hearing his story.
(b) They didn't believe his story.
(c) They were angry and kept him in town as an example of how not to behave.
(d) They were horrified by his story and tried to get him to move.

4. What is ironic about Trueblood's situation?
(a) He receives charity from the whites.
(b) Other men have done the same thing.
(c) The college wants him to leave.
(d) The college wants him to stay around.

5. Ellison himself was a member of which branch of the military?
(a) navy
(b) Merchant Marines
(c) army
(d) airforce

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator credit for his "call to action"?

2. How do the boys react to the naked girl?

3. What had Mr. Trueblood done prior to his disgrace?

4. The dark tunnel is symbolic of the narrator's

5. How does the narrator's grandfather regard his own meekness?

(see the answer key)

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