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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following represents the narrator's philosophy?
(a) Truth is destined to come forth
(b) The light reveals all things
(c) The light reveals the truth
(d) The truth is the light and the light is the truth

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

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

4. The narrator wants to learn everything he can about the Brotherhood in order to
(a) Use it to create equality for black people
(b) Use it to restore those who have been dispossessed
(c) Use it as a means to get even with Bledsoe
(d) Use it to achieve power for himself

5. What happens when the narrator wears the sunglasses?
(a) The bartender kicks him out for possession of a knife
(b) People think is is Brother Maceo
(c) People think he is Rinehart
(d) People cannot identify him

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator accused of when he tries to dispose of the figurine?

2. Why does Mr. Bledsoe compose his face into a bland mask?

3. Whose words does the narrator contemplate as proof that he can have two identities and still be successful?

4. Why is Brockway hostile toward the narrator?

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

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