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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Ellison, for what have African Americans historically had to fight?
(a) Their freedoms
(b) The right for education
(c) The right for fair employment
(d) The right to fight

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

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

5. The main conflict of Ellison's original story revolves around
(a) national poverty
(b) imperialism
(c) racial tension
(d) problems associated with war

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was the novel written?

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

4. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?

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

(see the answer key)

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