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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Norton give to Trueblood?
(a) A lecture on morality
(b) Nothing
(c) A hundred dollar bill
(d) A bottle of whiskey

2. According to Ellison, which of the following is important for perseverance?
(a) determination
(b) courage
(c) tolerance
(d) laughter

3. What was the topic of the narrator's graduation day speech?
(a) Courage
(b) Racial pride
(c) Humilty
(d) Equality

4. 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

5. Which of the following two concepts, in combination, does Ellison see as a "raft of hope."
(a) compassion and equality
(b) democracy and truth
(c) equality and art
(d) art and democracy

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Ellison's original story was written about which of the following?

4. Where does the road in the college town ultimately lead?

5. How is the narrator's invisibility related to his residence?

(see the answer key)

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