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Invisible Man

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Set in the U.S. during the pre-Civil Rights era, when Jim Crow segregation laws denied black Americans basic rights, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man follows a young, college-educated black man's struggles to survive dangerous situations and to succeed in a racially divided society that refuses to see him as a human being. Although the protagonist undoubtedly has a name, Ralph Ellison chose to keep his character nameless and "invisible" throughout the novel.

Take the Quiz At the beginning of the novel, where does the narrator live?
  1. With his only true friend Mary
  2. In a South Carolina halfway house
  3. In the coal cellar of a whites-only building
  4. In a partially destroyed tenement in Harlem
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