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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. For whom does the Brotherhood claim to work?
(a) all people
(b) Black people
(c) Those of their own party
(d) White people

2. Why does the narrator run after making his speech on behalf of the elderly couple?
(a) He doesn't want to be confronted for making a speech.
(b) He thinks the crowd is after him.
(c) A white girl tells him to run, and he obeys even though he isn't exactly sure why.
(d) He sees the police coming and thinks they are after him.

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

4. What surprises the narrator in relation to the riot?
(a) The Brotherhood had instigated it.
(b) It was the inevitable end of the politics they had been preaching.
(c) He had actually been used to help cause it.
(d) The Brotherhood knew nothing about it.

5. Why was Brother Tarp on a chain gang?
(a) Because he had dared to say the word no.
(b) Because he had betrayed his white master
(c) Because he had lied to white people
(d) Because he had betrayed his people

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the narrator may not realize it, he is searching for

2. Upon the narrator's return to Harlem, he learns which of the following individuals has disappeared from the Brotherhood?

3. What surprising development does the narrator experience when he attends a committee meeting?

4. What does the narrator purchase after the confrontation with Ras?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the narrator's real problem, and how has he settled it?

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

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

4. Why does the lady on the street become angry when he tries to put the figurine in the trash can?

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

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

7. Brother Jack refers to Clifton as Brutus? How does the metaphor fit the situation?

8. Why is the narrator's funeral oration more moving than if he had planned a speech based according to party guidelines?

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

10. Explain the irony of the figurine owned by Mary.

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