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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the vet's final advice to the narrator?
(a) Defy people like Norton
(b) Stay away from people like Mr. Norton
(c) Watch for opportunities to get close to people like Norton
(d) Find ways to manipulate people like Norton

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

3. What does the narrator fear is the reason for his inability to get an appointment with the trustees?
(a) He thinks the secretaries are not telling him the truth.
(b) He fears there may not be any jobs after all.
(c) He fears a conspiracy.
(d) He thinks no one is seeing the letters he submitted.

4. Who else is on the bus to New York?
(a) Mr. Trueblood
(b) another student
(c) no one
(d) the veteran doctor

5. Why does the narrator have difficulty getting along on his first two jobs?
(a) He doesn't understand or fit in the blue-collar/union world
(b) He is the only black person on the job
(c) He is too highly educated for the job
(d) He is not correctly educated for the job

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Bledsoe is preoccupied with what?

2. Why is the narrator offended by the man behind the drugstore counter?

3. Ellison himself was a member of which branch of the military?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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