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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The image of the slave owners bidding for a naked girl is
(a) a vison induced by marijuana
(b) something that happened to the narrator's father
(c) a picture the narrator had seen in a book
(d) something the narrator recalls from his childhood

2. What does the narrator feel was his primary fault 20 years earlier?
(a) He was naive.
(b) He was cowardly.
(c) He was easily confused.
(d) He was too bold.

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

4. What group of society is represented by the white men at the Battle Royal?
(a) Educators (professors, scientists)
(b) Middle upper class (supervisors, lawyers, bankers, etc)
(c) Leaders (governors, politicians)
(d) Lower class (poor white men)

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator excuse his lack of responsibility?

2. What is most unusual about the narrator's residence?

3. What, ironically, makes the narrator's white bosses distrustful of him?

4. What does the narrator tell Mr. Emerson that he wants to do with his future?

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

(see the answer key)

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