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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Bledsoe call the narrator?
(a) a liar
(b) a slave
(c) an educated fool
(d) a traitor

2. How does the narrator excuse his lack of responsibility?
(a) The downtrodden should not be expected to assume responsibility
(b) Responsibility cannot happen without recognition
(c) Because he is invisible, he doesn't know what responsibility to take
(d) No one has ever given him responsibility

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

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

5. What does the moon symbolize?
(a) The vision of those in power.
(b) An eye that sees only what it chooses.
(c) The eye of God
(d) Intellectual vision that is defective

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bledsoe tell the narrator to go?

2. How does the narrator get past the drunken vet in the road?

3. The dark tunnel is symbolic of the narrator's

4. How does the vet react when Mr. Norton tries to explain his interest in the college?

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

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