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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the vet's final advice to the narrator?
(a) Find ways to manipulate people like Norton
(b) Defy people like Norton
(c) Stay away from people like Mr. Norton
(d) Watch for opportunities to get close to people like Norton

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

3. Of what does the vet accuse Mr. Norton?
(a) Of failing to accomplish his mission for the college
(b) Of treating the blacks like impersonal conquests
(c) Of treating the blacks unfairly
(d) Of practicing racial prejudice

4. In spite of losing his identity, what does the narrator retain?
(a) his naive outlook on life
(b) the memory of Mr. Norton
(c) an urgency to find a job
(d) a desire for revenge

5. How does the narrator get past the drunken vet in the road?
(a) He claims to be someone of importance.
(b) He pays the vet a bribe.
(c) He pretends he is about to run over the vet.
(d) He tells him he has General Pershing in the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the narrator homesick when he first gets to New York?

2. Why is the narrator offended by the man behind the drugstore counter?

3. What revelation does the "Tom Show" provide for Ellison?

4. What does Brother Tod Clifton do?

5. The narrator's pondering of his upcoming punishment is an example of what literary device?

(see the answer key)

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