Invisible Man Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Invisible Man Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of speeches has the narrator given from the stage in the chapel?

2. What is ironic about Trueblood's situation?

3. The veteran doctor claims to have been beaten for what?

4. What does the moon symbolize?

5. Why does the narrator have difficulty getting along on his first two jobs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Harlem a particularly appropriate setting for the novel?

2. To what kind of action has music called the narrator?

3. How does the setting in chapter 5 provide additional foreshadowing?

4. How was the narrator's graduation speech a betrayal of black people?

5. What surprises the narrator upon his arrival in Harlem?

6. What mistake does the veteran doctor predict the narrator will make?

7. Why does the trip to the Trueblood house make the narrator feel uncomfortable?

8. Why was the narrator doomed to fail at the paint factory?

9. What lie does Dr. Bledsoe expect the narrator to tell?

10. Why does the narrator say he is invisible?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several times the narrator recalls his grandfather's dying words. Discuss the situations in which the narrator recalls his grandfather, showing how he reacts to those memories upon different occasions.

Essay Topic 2

Someone has said that heresy is simply truth carried to an extreme. Explain, therefore, how either diversity or unity could be carried to an extreme, misused, and thus become heretical.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the use of white vs black and dark vs light throughout the novel. How are these contrasting concepts used in unexpected ways?

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