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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the narrator's invisibility related to his residence?
(a) The white residents simply ignore him.
(b) He is able to come and go without being noticed.
(c) He lives in a building for whites and uses their electricity because they cannot conceive of his presence.
(d) The whites allow him to stay there because they consider him unimportant.

2. The narrator considers himself an invisible man because ____________________.
(a) people can't see him
(b) people subconsciously ignore him
(c) people refuse to see him with their inner eyes
(d) people don't understand him

3. What does the narrator recall having been given instead of a cigarette?
(a) a beating
(b) a cigar
(c) liquor
(d) marijuana

4. What two groups of people must pay the price for being irresponsible?
(a) idealists and cowards
(b) lazy people and cowards
(c) sleepwalkers and dreamers
(d) dreamer and cowards

5. What had Mr. Trueblood done prior to his disgrace?
(a) He was a special singer at the college.
(b) He was an employee of the college.
(c) He was a guest lecturer
(d) He had been involved in tutoring the black students.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator feel was his primary fault 20 years earlier?

2. Where was the novel written?

3. Ellison himself was a member of which branch of the military?

4. Which of the following represents the narrator's philosophy?

5. What was the topic of the narrator's graduation day speech?

(see the answer key)

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