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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator excuse his lack of responsibility?
(a) Because he is invisible, he doesn't know what responsibility to take
(b) The downtrodden should not be expected to assume responsibility
(c) Responsibility cannot happen without recognition
(d) No one has ever given him responsibility

2. Ellison himself was a member of which branch of the military?
(a) Merchant Marines
(b) army
(c) navy
(d) airforce

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

4. What does the narrator feel was his primary fault 20 years earlier?
(a) He was naive.
(b) He was cowardly.
(c) He was too bold.
(d) He was easily confused.

5. What is most unusual about the narrator's residence?
(a) It is in a basement
(b) It is filled with over 1300 light bulbs
(c) It is a white apartment house
(d) It is free

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following two concepts, in combination, does Ellison see as a "raft of hope."

2. What is the narrator afraid of losing?

3. What is the real purpose of the Reverend's speech?

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

5. What had Mr. Trueblood done prior to his disgrace?

(see the answer key)

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