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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is happening in Harlem?
(a) The police have taken over.
(b) The people have burned down the district office
(c) The Brotherhood has taken over.
(d) The community is in a riot

3. What is it that people like Jack, Bledsoe and Norton have refused to do?
(a) Recognize the American identity of all of her people
(b) Recognize equality among all individuals
(c) Recognize the uncontrollable power of a group
(d) Recognize the importance of each individual

4. What does the narrator notice at the funeral that he would like to exploit?
(a) The absence of the Brotherhood
(b) The large attendance on the part of the youth`
(c) The tension of the crowd
(d) The carelessness of the policemen

5. Where was the novel written?
(a) Georgia
(b) New York
(c) Harlem
(d) Vermont

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator get past the drunken vet in the road?

2. What surprises the narrator in relation to the riot?

3. Of what do the men in the bar in Chapter 20 accuse the narrator?

4. Why does Mr. Bledsoe compose his face into a bland mask?

5. The narrator becomes dizzy at the thought that true saviors might actually be where?

(see the answer key)

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