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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator recall having been given instead of a cigarette?
(a) a cigar
(b) a beating
(c) liquor
(d) marijuana

2. What object does Mary own that the narrator finds offensive?
(a) a figurine of a white leader
(b) a mask used in black rituals
(c) a bank in the shape of a black figurine
(d) a distorted figurine of a black leader

3. What does the narrator discover when he gets to the woman's apartment?
(a) Her husband is away
(b) her husband is dead
(c) the woman is divorced
(d) the woman is single

4. What makes the narrator homesick when he first gets to New York?
(a) the letters he carries
(b) a message from Mr. Norton
(c) the sight of other black people
(d) a Gideon Bible

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 he should not be afraid of white men
(d) That the white men are trying to destroy him

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator get invited to participate in the Battle Royal?

2. In addition to his memories, what else has the narrator lost?

3. What awakens the narrator in Chapter 15?

4. Where was the novel written?

5. What do the yams symbolize?

(see the answer key)

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