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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 the narrator's explanation for taking Mr. Norton to the Golden Day?
(a) Mr. Norton was driving
(b) The car was out of gas.
(c) He thought he could get medical help there
(d) Mr. Norton ordered him to go there

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

3. Why does the Reverend Barbee trip over Dr. Bledsoe?
(a) Reverend Barbee isn't watching where he is going.
(b) Someone distracts Reverend Barbee
(c) Reverend Barbee is blind.
(d) Dr. Bledsoe forgets to pull his legs back

4. The veteran doctor claims to have been beaten for what?
(a) getting drunk
(b) returning to the states
(c) saving a life
(d) failing to fulfil his duty

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following represents the narrator's philosophy?

2. What is the real purpose of the Reverend's speech?

3. What does the moon symbolize?

4. What does the narrator recall having been given instead of a cigarette?

5. What truth does the vet tell to the narrator that the narrator does not yet understand?

(see the answer key)

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