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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 Trueblood's explanation of the rape of his daughter?
(a) His wife forced him into it.
(b) He acted in a dream and didn't know what he was doing.
(c) He confused his wife with his daughter because they were all in the same bed.
(d) His daughter dliberately seduced him.

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

3. The concept of the character as invisible is symbolic of which of the following conditions?
(a) The character does not understand the truth of his situation.
(b) The character has deliberately denied his true place in society.
(c) There are so many people like the hero that no one notices them.
(d) Whites are morally blind to the checks and balances imposed on the African Americans.

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

5. What truth does the vet tell to the narrator that the narrator does not yet understand?
(a) That he is invisible
(b) That he is doomed to failure
(c) That the white men are trying to destroy him
(d) That he should not be afraid of white men

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the road in the college town ultimately lead?

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

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

4. Why does the vet want the narrator to hear his story?

5. What unexpected sight does the narrator see in New York?

(see the answer key)

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