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

3. How does Mr. Norton explain the day's events?
(a) He has no explanation.
(b) He claims the narrator took advantage of his (Norton's) illness
(c) He says the trip was the narrator's idea.
(d) He says the narrator was not responsible.

4. What bit of advice from the young Mr. Emerson does the narrator actually heed?
(a) to return to the college
(b) to call Liberty Paints and ask for a job
(c) to forget about Mr. Bledsoe
(d) to realize that he has no identity

5. How does the narrator's grandfather regard his own meekness?
(a) He is proud of his choices.
(b) He considers himself a traitor.
(c) He considers himself a victim
(d) He considers himself a coward.

6. What does the moon symbolize?
(a) The eye of God
(b) The vision of those in power.
(c) Intellectual vision that is defective
(d) An eye that sees only what it chooses.

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

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

9. What revelation does the "Tom Show" provide for Ellison?
(a) It shows him that history is a part of the present
(b) It convinces him that history will be repeated
(c) It reveals the futility of fighting agains the majority.
(d) It convinces him that history cannot be changed.

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

11. According to Mr. Brockway, what happened when the company tried to replace him?
(a) No one else would take the job
(b) The union went to bat for him.
(c) The other workers went on strike
(d) All the paint went bad

12. What does the narrator credit for his "call to action"?
(a) marijuana
(b) the girl in his dream
(c) music
(d) his vision

13. Why is Brockway hostile toward the narrator?
(a) The narrator approaches him with a bad attitude.
(b) The narrator has difficulty following instructions.
(c) He has heard of the narrator's mistake.
(d) He thinks the narrator is there to take his job.

14. How is the paint symbolic?
(a) It is white, reminding the narrator of the slogan, Keep America Pure with Liberty Paints.
(b) It symbolizes work and success
(c) It symbolizes purity and correctness
(d) It symbolizes society's ability to cover evils

15. Why does Mr. Bledsoe compose his face into a bland mask?
(a) He wants to see Mr. Norton's reaction before revealing his own feelings.
(b) He doesn't want Mr. Norton to know he is angry with the narrator.
(c) He wants to hide the fact that he is angry with Mr. Norton.
(d) He doesn't want the narrator to realize how upset he is.