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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator initially concerned about finding work as soon as possible?
(a) He hopes to save enough money for his fall tuition.
(b) He is afraid he will run out of money for rent.
(c) He is concerned about being able to buy food.
(d) He does not want to appear broke if he has to ask for credit for his room rent.

2. To what does Ras the Exhorter primarily object?
(a) The narrator's street corner approach
(b) Clifton's methods of leading the youth
(c) The mixing of black and white
(d) The idea of a black man speaking out for white people

3. 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) The white residents simply ignore him.
(c) The whites allow him to stay there because they consider him unimportant.
(d) He is able to come and go without being noticed.

4. What is most unusual about the narrator's residence?
(a) It is filled with over 1300 light bulbs
(b) It is a white apartment house
(c) It is free
(d) It is in a basement

5. In spite of losing his identity, what does the narrator retain?
(a) his naive outlook on life
(b) an urgency to find a job
(c) a desire for revenge
(d) the memory of Mr. Norton

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do certain members of the Brotherhood consider that narrator's speech unsatisfactory?

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

3. Why is the narrator unable to see Mr. Bates?

4. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?

5. What truth is revealed about the Brotherhood in Chapter 22?

(see the answer key)

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