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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator see as he is watching people leave the chapel?
(a) The veteran doctor
(b) Dr. Bledsoe's cadillac
(c) Mr. Norton's car
(d) Mr. Trueblood's car

2. The main conflict of Ellison's original story revolves around
(a) racial tension
(b) problems associated with war
(c) national poverty
(d) imperialism

3. What makes the narrator homesick when he first gets to New York?
(a) the sight of other black people
(b) the letters he carries
(c) a Gideon Bible
(d) a message from Mr. Norton

4. Ellison's original story was written about which of the following?
(a) A slave
(b) An African American author
(c) A sharecropper
(d) An African American pilot

5. The dark tunnel is symbolic of the narrator's
(a) invisible nature in relation to white people
(b) lack of understanding about culture and society as a whole
(c) unwillingness to face the truth
(d) lack of knowledge about himself

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator afraid of losing?

2. What does the narrator fear is the reason for his inability to get an appointment with the trustees?

3. What is Trueblood's explanation of the rape of his daughter?

4. Why is the narrator initially concerned about finding work as soon as possible?

5. Where was the novel written?

(see the answer key)

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