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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Trueblood's explanation of the rape of his daughter?
(a) He confused his wife with his daughter because they were all in the same bed.
(b) His wife forced him into it.
(c) He acted in a dream and didn't know what he was doing.
(d) His daughter dliberately seduced him.

2. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?
(a) They were horrified by his story and tried to get him to move.
(b) They didn't believe his story.
(c) They secretly enjoyed hearing his story.
(d) They were angry and kept him in town as an example of how not to behave.

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

4. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?
(a) Nothing
(b) A bottle of whiskey
(c) A hundred dollar bill
(d) A lecture on morality

5. What truth does the vet tell to the narrator that the narrator does not yet understand?
(a) That he is invisible
(b) That he should not be afraid of white men
(c) That he is doomed to failure
(d) That the white men are trying to destroy him

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the narrator like to add to his "hole"?

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

3. What had Mr. Trueblood done prior to his disgrace?

4. What does Dr. Bledsoe call the narrator?

5. Bledsoe tells the narrator that he should not worry about

(see the answer key)

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