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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. Why does the narrator try to hide the figurine from Mary?
(a) Because he is trying to steal it
(b) Because he has broken it
(c) Because he wants to take it to the Brotherhood
(d) Because he thinks it is unworthy of her

2. What is in the narrator's briefcase?
(a) his green spectacles
(b) a white hat
(c) Mary's bank
(d) his cash

3. Why is the narrator unable to see his audience when he gives his speech at the arena?
(a) He is blinded by lights
(b) The auditorium is too dim.
(c) They are too far away.
(d) He has to speak from behind a curtain.

4. What assumption does Mary make regarding the source of the $100 given to her by the narrator?
(a) That he was selling drugs
(b) That he earned it through employment
(c) That the Brotherhood gave it to him.
(d) That he got it by playing the lottery

5. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?
(a) Brother Westrum
(b) Brother Jack
(c) Brother Hambro
(d) Brother Clifton

Short Answer Questions

1. With what animal does the narrator compare Brother Jack?

2. What does the narrator discover about Jack?

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

4. What apparent warning meets the narrator upon his return to Harlem

5. Why is the narrator unable to say much about Clifton?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Emma's conversation create a sense of foreboding?

2. Why does Brother Jack defend the narrator at this point?

3. Why is the narrator's work on the "woman question" cut short?

4. What is the significance of the black thread that controls the dancing doll?

5. Why do Dupre and his men choose a particular building to burn?

6. How does the narrator really feel about the gift of the chain from Brother Tarp?

7. What is meant by "white fever"?

8. What puzzling irony does the narrator tell us about the human race?

9. What strikes the narrator as the profound truth about the riot?

10. Explain the initial results of the narrator's strategy of "yessing" them to death.

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