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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would the narrator like to add to his "hole"?
(a) a TV set
(b) four more radio-phonographs
(c) a phonograph player
(d) a kitchen

2. Which of the following represents the narrator's philosophy?
(a) The light reveals all things
(b) Truth is destined to come forth
(c) The light reveals the truth
(d) The truth is the light and the light is the truth

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 lives in a building for whites and uses their electricity because they cannot conceive of his presence.
(d) He is able to come and go without being noticed.

4. What is ironic about Trueblood's situation?
(a) He receives charity from the whites.
(b) The college wants him to leave.
(c) The college wants him to stay around.
(d) Other men have done the same thing.

5. What does the narrator discuss with the woman in his dream?
(a) freedom
(b) responsibility
(c) fear
(d) racism

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the narrator get invited to participate in the Battle Royal?

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

4. What is most unusual about the narrator's residence?

5. What does the narrator credit for his "call to action"?

(see the answer key)

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