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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?
(a) Dr. Bledsoe forgets to pull his legs back
(b) Someone distracts Reverend Barbee
(c) Reverend Barbee isn't watching where he is going.
(d) Reverend Barbee is blind.

2. The main conflict of Ellison's original story revolves around
(a) imperialism
(b) national poverty
(c) problems associated with war
(d) racial tension

3. What is the vet's final advice to the narrator?
(a) Stay away from people like Mr. Norton
(b) Defy people like Norton
(c) Find ways to manipulate people like Norton
(d) Watch for opportunities to get close to people like Norton

4. How did the narrator get invited to participate in the Battle Royal?
(a) He happened to be at the hotel to give a speech to white men.
(b) The people who arranged the speech planned to include him.
(c) He thought it was part of the award.
(d) He volunteered because it looked interesting.

5. How does the narrator get past the drunken vet in the road?
(a) He pays the vet a bribe.
(b) He tells him he has General Pershing in the car.
(c) He pretends he is about to run over the vet.
(d) He claims to be someone of importance.

Short Answer Questions

1. The concept of the character as invisible is symbolic of which of the following conditions?

2. What does the narrator recall having been given instead of a cigarette?

3. What does the narrator discuss with the woman in his dream?

4. What does the man in Emerson's office imply after reading the letter given him by the narrator?

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

(see the answer key)

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