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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following represents the narrator's philosophy?
(a) The light reveals all things
(b) The truth is the light and the light is the truth
(c) The light reveals the truth
(d) Truth is destined to come forth

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

4. Why is the narrator unable to see Mr. Bates?
(a) There are no jobs in Mr. Bates' department
(b) Mr. Bates is too busy to be seen.
(c) The secretary will not admit him.
(d) Mr. Bates is not in.

5. How is the narrator's invisibility related to his residence?
(a) The whites allow him to stay there because they consider him unimportant.
(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) He is able to come and go without being noticed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator notice about the whites in the city?

2. Bledsoe tells the narrator that he should not worry about

3. According to Ellison, for what have African Americans historically had to fight?

4. What is Trueblood's explanation of the rape of his daughter?

5. Where is the vet going?

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