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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The image of the slave owners bidding for a naked girl is
(a) a vison induced by marijuana
(b) a picture the narrator had seen in a book
(c) something that happened to the narrator's father
(d) something the narrator recalls from his childhood

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

4. When was the introduction of the novel written?
(a) Immediately after finishing the story.
(b) Before the text of the story
(c) 30 years after the text itself
(d) Sporadically during the writing of the story

5. Where does the road in the college town ultimately lead?
(a) To the college
(b) To a chapel
(c) To a mental institution
(d) To a statue

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The concept of the character as invisible is symbolic of which of the following conditions?

3. According to Ellison, for what have African Americans historically had to fight?

4. The narrator considers himself an invisible man because ____________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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