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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 ironic about the narrator's dance with Emma?
(a) He is the only black man she dances with at the party.
(b) The veteran doctor had predicted that the narrator would dance with a white woman.
(c) He had at first refused the offer to dance with her.
(d) She is the first white woman he ever danced with.

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

3. What bit of advice from the young Mr. Emerson does the narrator actually heed?
(a) to call Liberty Paints and ask for a job
(b) to forget about Mr. Bledsoe
(c) to return to the college
(d) to realize that he has no identity

4. Why do certain members of the Brotherhood consider that narrator's speech unsatisfactory?
(a) The narrator used science and rationalization instead of real feeling
(b) It was too cold and general
(c) The logical arguments were faulty
(d) It was too emotional

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake does the narrator make at Liberty Paints?

2. What object does Mary own that the narrator finds offensive?

3. What does the doctor mean when he says they "picked poor robin clean"?

4. According to Reverend Barbee, why does Dr. Bledsoe enjoy a position of apparent power?

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

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