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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator get invited to participate in the Battle Royal?
(a) The people who arranged the speech planned to include him.
(b) He volunteered because it looked interesting.
(c) He thought it was part of the award.
(d) He happened to be at the hotel to give a speech to white men.

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

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

4. What revelation does the "Tom Show" provide for Ellison?
(a) It shows him that history is a part of the present
(b) It convinces him that history cannot be changed.
(c) It convinces him that history will be repeated
(d) It reveals the futility of fighting agains the majority.

5. What does the narrator credit for his "call to action"?
(a) music
(b) marijuana
(c) the girl in his dream
(d) his vision

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator feel was his primary fault 20 years earlier?

2. Ellison's primary struggle in writing the book was

3. Ellison himself was a member of which branch of the military?

4. What was the topic of the narrator's graduation day speech?

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

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