This character is the white leader of the Brotherhood. He has a glass eye and red hair. He does the opposite of upholding rights for the oppressed.
Who is Brother Jack?
100
"Then suddenly I was blinded, and felt myself crash into the man ahead of me."
What is blindness?
100
"My name spread like smoke in an airless room."
What is a simile?
100
What angers some members of the brotherhood about the narrator's speech?
It is not scientific
100
"Just look at it, it looks like the steel skull of a man! Do you think he died of dispossession?"
Who is the narrator? (pg. 341)
200
This character is a black member of the Brotherhood. He is known for selling the Sambo dolls (represented the stereotype of slaves).
Who is Brother Clifton?
200
"It was as though a semi-transparent curtain had dropped between us, but through which they could see me, for they were applauding."
What is invisibility?
200
Define dispossessed
Deprive someone of something he or she owns. Typically relating to land or property.
200
Who did the narrator study with for months?
Brother Hambro
200
"Why you go over to the enslaver? What kind of education is that? What kind of black mahn is that who betray his own mama?"
Who is Ras The Exhorter (Destroyer)? (pg. 371)
300
Feels as if his new coat, new name, and new identity has made him a new person entirely.
Who is the narrator?
300
Extremely violent, white abolitionist who believed it was the will of God to violently end slavery.
Who is John Brown?
300
Define listless
Having or showing no interest in anything
300
It is unfair, and the brotherhood wants to abolish it.
What is eviction?
300
"The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration. Say what the people want to hear, but say it in such a way that they'll do what we wish."
Who is Brother Jack? (pg. 359)
400
He seemed to grin back at me like a fat, good-natured man, the saliva roping silvery from his jowls.
Who is Old Master the dog?
400
A black man who will do anything to stay in good standing with "the white man" including betray his own people.
Who is an Uncle Tom?
400
"And now close up, leaning tall and relaxed, his arms outstretched stiffly up on the table, I saw the broad, taut span of his knuckles up on the dark grain of the wood, the muscular, sweatered arms, the curved..."
What is enjambment?
400
This type of action is done between Ras The Exhorter and Brother Clifton over the topic of advancement of blacks and betrayal.
What is the brawl/debate?
400
"We have a scientific plan and you set them off. Things are so bad they'll listen, and when they listen they'll go along."
Who is Brother Tod Clifton? (pg. 367)
500
"The cynical, the disbelieving part, the traitor self that always threatened internal discord." Who is this traitor self?
Who is the grandfather? (pg. 335)
500
"The photograph was that of a man so dark and battered that he might have been of any nationality."
What is slavery?
500
Define invocation
Asking for help or aide, especially from a deity.
500
"And the new public self that spoke for the brotherhood and was becoming so much important than the other that I seemed to run a foot race against myself"
What is this quote referring about himself in the end of chapter 17?
*hint*hint* ( what is he looking for throughout the whole novel?) ( Not a trick question :))
The narrator is beginning to have self confidence about him joining the Brotherhood which causes him to think he is finding his identity and morals.
500
"We create the race by creating ourselves and then to our great astonishment we will have created something far more important: We will have created a culture."
Who is Woodridge, the narrator's college professor? (pg. 354)