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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 bottle of whiskey
(b) Nothing
(c) A lecture on morality
(d) A hundred dollar bill

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

3. How is the narrator's invisibility related to his residence?
(a) He is able to come and go without being noticed.
(b) The white residents simply ignore him.
(c) He lives in a building for whites and uses their electricity because they cannot conceive of his presence.
(d) The whites allow him to stay there because they consider him unimportant.

4. The dark tunnel is symbolic of the narrator's
(a) invisible nature in relation to white people
(b) lack of knowledge about himself
(c) unwillingness to face the truth
(d) lack of understanding about culture and society as a whole

5. What had Mr. Trueblood done prior to his disgrace?
(a) He was a guest lecturer
(b) He was an employee of the college.
(c) He had been involved in tutoring the black students.
(d) He was a special singer at the college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator feel was his primary fault 20 years earlier?

2. How does the narrator's grandfather regard his own meekness?

3. How does the narrator excuse his lack of responsibility?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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