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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ellison's original story was written about which of the following?
(a) A sharecropper
(b) An African American author
(c) An African American pilot
(d) A slave

2. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?
(a) They were horrified by his story and tried to get him to move.
(b) They secretly enjoyed hearing his story.
(c) They were angry and kept him in town as an example of how not to behave.
(d) They didn't believe his story.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the novel written?

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

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

4. The image of the slave owners bidding for a naked girl is

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

(see the answer key)

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