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

2. What group of society is represented by the white men at the Battle Royal?
(a) Leaders (governors, politicians)
(b) Middle upper class (supervisors, lawyers, bankers, etc)
(c) Educators (professors, scientists)
(d) Lower class (poor white men)

3. The narrator considers himself an invisible man because ____________________.
(a) people can't see him
(b) people subconsciously ignore him
(c) people refuse to see him with their inner eyes
(d) people don't understand him

4. What does the narrator recall having been given instead of a cigarette?
(a) marijuana
(b) a cigar
(c) a beating
(d) liquor

5. Where was the novel written?
(a) Harlem
(b) Georgia
(c) Vermont
(d) New York

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What would the narrator like to add to his "hole"?

4. How do the boys react to the naked girl?

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

(see the answer key)

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