Invisible Man: Study Help: Quiz

1: At the beginning of the novel, where does the narrator live?

a. With his only true friend Mary

b. In a South Carolina halfway house

c. In the coal cellar of a whites-only building

d. In a partially destroyed tenement in Harlem

2: In the Prologue, the narrator admires the music of whom?

a. Ma Rainey

b. Billie Holiday

c. Louis Armstrong

d. Paul Robeson

3: What is a ?battle royal??

a. A brutal rite of passage in which blindfolded opponents fight

b. A dogfight

c. A hazing ritual in which one man is flogged by another

d. An exotic dance that has undertones of violence

4: What is the narrator surprised to see upon his arrival in Harlem?

a. A group of black people gathered to hear Ras the Exhorter

b. Black girls working at a five-and-dime store

c. A black policeman directing traffic

d. All of the above

5: Why is the narrator expelled from college?

a. For befriending Ras the Exhorter

b. For socializing with white girls

c. For chauffeuring Mr. Norton to disreputable places

d. For being insubordinate to a professor

6: What do they make at the factory where the narrator takes a job?

a. Optic white paint

b. Plastic signs

c. Pencils

d. Bottle caps

7: Trying to determine the narrators identity, the doctors at the factory hospital ask him all of the following questions EXCEPT:

a. Who was Brer Rabbit?

b. Where do you live?

c. Who is your mother?

d. What is your name?

8: Brother Tarp gives the narrator a link of chain and what?

a. A portrait of Marcus Garvey

b. A portrait of Booker T. Washington

c. A portrait of Frederick Douglass

d. An old pocket watch

9: Which of the following characters does NOT appear in the narrators castration dream?

a. Brother Jack

b. Brother Tobitt

c. Mr. Norton

d. Mr. Emerson

10: Who says the following: Youre a black education fool, son. These white folks have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them that youre lying theyll tell the world even if you prove youre telling the truth. Because its the kind of lie they want to hear.

a. Mary Rambo

b. Mr. Emerson

c. Sybil

d. Dr. Bledsoe

11: Who says the following: [You] mustnt waste your emotions on individuals, they dont count.

a. The school superintendent

b. Big Halley

c. The Narrators Mother

d. Brother Jack

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