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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator afraid of losing?
(a) His job.
(b) The respect Mr. Bledsoe has for him.
(c) His identity
(d) His scholarship

2. What does the cord in chapter 11 symbolize?
(a) isolation
(b) rebirth
(c) separation
(d) loss

3. What mistake does the narrator make at Liberty Paints?
(a) He adds paint remover instead of the pigment to the paint
(b) He uses the wrong tank of paint
(c) He adds too much pigment to the paint
(d) He does not paint the sample correctly.

4. What does Dr. Bledsoe call the narrator?
(a) a slave
(b) a traitor
(c) a liar
(d) an educated fool

5. The narrator considers himself an invisible man because ____________________.
(a) people can't see him
(b) people don't understand him
(c) people refuse to see him with their inner eyes
(d) people subconsciously ignore him

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

7. What does Trueblood's story suggest about the white men at the jail house?
(a) They secretly enjoyed hearing his story.
(b) They were angry and kept him in town as an example of how not to behave.
(c) They were horrified by his story and tried to get him to move.
(d) They didn't believe his story.

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

9. How does the narrator regard Mr. Bledsoe?
(a) As a protector
(b) As a role model.
(c) As an unpredictable element
(d) As an enemy

10. What is most unusual about the narrator's residence?
(a) It is filled with over 1300 light bulbs
(b) It is free
(c) It is a white apartment house
(d) It is in a basement

11. What two groups of people must pay the price for being irresponsible?
(a) sleepwalkers and dreamers
(b) dreamer and cowards
(c) idealists and cowards
(d) lazy people and cowards

12. How is the narrator's invisibility related to his residence?
(a) The whites allow him to stay there because they consider him unimportant.
(b) He lives in a building for whites and uses their electricity because they cannot conceive of his presence.
(c) He is able to come and go without being noticed.
(d) The white residents simply ignore him.

13. The narrator's need to give speeches is an example of what literary device?
(a) suspense
(b) irony
(c) foreshadowing
(d) audio imagery

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Mr. Trueblood done prior to his disgrace?

2. Why is the narrator unable to see Mr. Bates?

3. What bit of advice from the young Mr. Emerson does the narrator actually heed?

4. Why is the narrator initially concerned about finding work as soon as possible?

5. What does the narrator see as he is watching people leave the chapel?

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