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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?
(a) A lecture on morality
(b) Nothing
(c) A hundred dollar bill
(d) A bottle of whiskey

2. What, ironically, makes the narrator's white bosses distrustful of him?
(a) his background and education
(b) his attitude
(c) his color
(d) his lack of experience

3. According to Reverend Barbee, why does Dr. Bledsoe enjoy a position of apparent power?
(a) Dr. Bledsoe had performed favors for the Founder.
(b) The Founder told Reverend Barbee that Bledsoe deserved the position.
(c) The Founder, with his dying breath, asked Bledsoe to continue in his leadership
(d) The Founder and Bledsoe were related.

4. According to the vet, who controls "things"?
(a) white, upper-class males
(b) white people
(c) black people
(d) rich people

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator feel disillusioned when looking at the picture of the Founder?

2. How does the narrator regard Mr. Bledsoe?

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

4. Where does Bledsoe tell the narrator to go?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What favor does the young Mr. Emerson do for the narrator?

2. How does the setting in chapter 5 provide additional foreshadowing?

3. Why is important to know that the introduction was written 30 years after the novel itself?

4. What final action does the hospital take to ensure the narrator's silence?

5. What does Ellison mean when he says that for African Americans, all wars are "wars within wars."

6. In what way, according to the veteran, is the narrator likely to become a casualty?

7. Why do the people at the Men's House treat him with hostility?

8. Why does Mr. Norton give Jim Trueblood $100?

9. Why do the grandfather's dying words make the narrator feel guilty about receiving praise?

10. What mistake does the veteran doctor predict the narrator will make?

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