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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 apparent warning meets the narrator upon his return to Harlem
(a) The red light on the church spire
(b) breaking glass
(c) sounds of distant shouting
(d) falling bird droppings

2. What do the yams symbolize?
(a) The narrator's future
(b) The narrator's ability to please himself
(c) The purity of the old south
(d) The narrator's past

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

4. In Chapter 14, why is Mary cooking cabbage?
(a) It's all she can afford
(b) The narrator has asked for it.
(c) She thinks it will please the narrator.
(d) It's a reminder of the south

5. When has the narrator made most of his mistakes?
(a) When he tried to follow other people's plans
(b) When he has failed to follow orders
(c) When he has stepped away from the ruling group
(d) When he has questioned other people's motives

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dupre want to do prior to starting the fire?

2. Where does Brother Jack send the narrator at the end of the meeting?

3. Why does the narrator consider his funeral speech a failure?

4. The narrator wants to learn everything he can about the Brotherhood in order to

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Brother Jack really want the narrator to avoid doing?

3. Why does Jack become angry with the man who asks the narrator to sing a "spiritual"?

4. The narrator says that he has learned that the lack of surprise is a warning. What does he mean?

5. What is the primary problem with the instructions given to the narrator to gather more members?

6. What is meant by "white fever"?

7. How do we know at this point that the lobotomy has not been completely successful in changing the narrator's personality?

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

9. Explain why the "woman question" is typical of the Brotherhood's approach to issues.

10. To what does Brother Tarp attribute the warning letter?

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