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Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

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1. What color is Brother Jack's hair?

(A) Red

(B) Brown

(D) Gray

2. From what company does the narrator steal electricity?

(A) The Standardized Light & Power Co.

(B) Pacific Gas

(D) The New York Energy Authority

3. What jazz recording does the narrator describe in the Prologue?

(A) “Dippermouth Blues,” by King Oliver

(B) “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue,” by Louis Armstrong

(D) “Barnyard Blues,” by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band

4. In Chapter One, what do the white men give the narrator after his speech?

(A) A hundred-dollar bill

(B) A new jacket

(D) A scholarship to college

5. Of what sin is Jim Trueblood guilty?

(A) Incest

(B) Murder

(D) Theft

6. Why is the narrator expelled from college?

(A) For cheating on his chemistry test

(B) For punching a white man who taunted him

(D) For taking one of the founders to a nearby black tavern

7. What does the narrator learn about Homer Barbee at Barbee's sermon?

(A) That Barbee is deaf

(B) That Barbee is blind

(D) That Barbee has a club foot

8. What is Ellison's attitude toward Booker T. Washington's philosophy of race relations?

(A) He embraces it wholeheartedly

(B) He advocates it with some reservations

(D) He rejects it fiercely and repeatedly

9. What sort of accent does Ras the Exhorter have?

(A) West Indian

(B) Southern

(D) French

10. Which of the following characters sells racially offensive dolls?

(A) Brother Tarp

(B) Brother Wrestrum

(D) Brother Jack

11. What is the best-selling color at Liberty Paints?

(A) Regal Blue

(B) Optic White

(D) Burnt Sienna

12. Which member of the Brotherhood offers the narrator a place in the organization?

(A) Brother Wrestrum

(B) Brother Tarp

(D) Brother Jack

13. Where does the narrator give his first speech for the Brotherhood?

(A) In a boxing arena

(B) At the Harlem Meer

(D) In front of a stable

14. Which woman allows the narrator to stay at her house her for free?

(A) Emma

(B) Sylvia

(D) Juanita

15. When the narrator smashes a racially offensive coin bank, where does he stash the pieces?

(A) In a well

(B) In his briefcase

(D) In an underground vault

16. What hinders the narrator and the other boys from collecting the money off of the rug after the “battle royal”?

(A) They are wearing blindfolds and thus cannot see

(B) The coins and bills are glued to the rug

(D) The rug is electrified

17. For whom do people mistake the narrator when he dons dark glasses?

(A) “Wilman”

(B) “Rinehart”

(D) “Johnson”

18. Who kills Tod Clifton?

(A) Ras

(B) The narrator

(D) The Brotherhood's henchmen

19. How many light bulbs does the narrator have burning in his underground room?

(A) 1,369

(B) 1,863

(D) 1,603

20. Who incites the riot in Harlem?

(A) The narrator

(B) Brother Wrestrum

(D) Ras the Exhorter

21. Where was Ralph Ellison born?

(A) New York City, NY

(B) Mobile, AL

(D) Oklahoma City, OK

22. Which character has only one eye?

(A) The narrator's grandfather

(B) Brother Jack

(D) Mr. Norton

23. At the narrator's college, what covers the statue of the Founder?

(A) Sunlight

(B) Gold

(D) Tree sap

24. How does Dr. Bledsoe betray the narrator?

(A) By giving him letters of condemnation instead of recommendation

(B) By arranging to have him fired from Liberty Paints

(D) By telling the Brotherhood about the narrator's eulogy for Clifton

25. What food makes the narrator think of the South?

(A) Peanut butter

(B) Okra

(D) Yams

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