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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the vet want the narrator to hear his story?
(a) So the narrator will persuade Mr. Norton to give a donation
(b) So the narrator will take up the cause of the vets
(c) So the narrator will return to the Golden Day
(d) So the narrator will not become another casualty

2. What is ironic about the narrator's dance with Emma?
(a) He had at first refused the offer to dance with her.
(b) He is the only black man she dances with at the party.
(c) The veteran doctor had predicted that the narrator would dance with a white woman.
(d) She is the first white woman he ever danced with.

3. What is the symbolic association of the arena in Chapter 16?
(a) a famous boxer lost his sight
(b) a crooked politician had been exposed
(c) a famous black speaker was killed there
(d) people of both colors gather there

4. According to the vet, who controls "things"?
(a) black people
(b) rich people
(c) white, upper-class males
(d) white people

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What awakens the narrator in Chapter 15?

2. The narrator's need to give speeches is an example of what literary device?

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

4. How is the paint symbolic?

5. How is the narrator's invisibility related to his residence?

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