Invisible Man Quizzes

Invisible Man Quiz 1

By Cameron Peterson · Last reviewed April 10, 2000

1 Invisible Man refers directly to the identity of which character?

Dr. Bledsoe

society

the narrator

Jack
2 What do the gold coins the boys must scramble for at the battle royal turn out to be?

wooden coins

chocolate candies

brass pocket tokens

pennies
3 Where is the narrator asked to give his high school graduation speech?

leading men's fraternity

town¹s most expensive restaurant

ballroom of the leading hotel

town hall
4 Who must the narrator fight one on one at the battle royal?

Big John

Jack

Tatlock

the M.C.
5 Whose words "Keep This Nigger-Boy Running" haunt the narrator?

Mr. Norton

his father

his grandfather

Tatlock
6 What is the name of the brothel/gambling joint to which the narrator brings Mr. Norton?

Golden Day

Golden Hour

Halley's Place

Happy Day
7 What must the narrator attend before he can hear Dr. Bledsoe's punishment?

college parade

classes

chapel

afternoon tea
8 The narrator realizes that the Reverend Barbee is ____ only after he gives his rousing oration and goes to sit down.

blind

in a wheelchair

black

deaf
9 After leaving the college, the narrator is sent to which city?

Washington D.C.

Atlanta

London

New York
10 Once there, he resides first in which establishment?

YMCA

Men's House

St. Paul's boarding house

Mary's house
11 The narrator hands out each of his letters from Dr. Bledsoe except the one addressed to ____ because he is out of town.

Mr. Bates

Mr. Emerson

Mr. Smith

Mr. Norton
12 Instead, the last letter is opened by whom?

no one

the narrator

the receptionist

Mr. Emerson's son
13 The narrator's first job in New York is for which company?

Optic Pants

Monopolated Light & Power

the Brotherhood

Liberty Paints
14 Which of the following men were NOT one of the narrator's supervisors at the plant?

Brockway

Kimbro

MacDuffy

Washington
15 Who claims to have come up with the slogan "If It's Optic White, It's the Right White"?

the narrator

Brockway

the chairman

Old Man Sparland
16 Why have the blacks at the narrator¹s college recently shun Jim Trueblood?

He is a bad farmer

He has impregnated both his daughter and wife

He talks with Mr. Norton

He has cheated on his wife with a white woman from town
17 Ras feels most betrayed by _____ because, as Ras explains, ____ could have been his African king.

the narrator

Rinehart

Tod Clifton

Jack
18 The Sambo image surfaces in each of the following situations EXCEPT

Blue the zoot-suiter

the battle royal

Clifton's dancing doll

Mary's Americana bank
19 Why does the narrator learn to understand Rinehart to be both rind and heart?

Rinehart's deceit of the people he knows allows him to play many roles, ranging from reverend to gambler to lover

Rinehart's charitable contribution to the Abyssinian church does not mesh with his zoot-suit image

Hambro explains the Brotherhood's new program to the narrator as like Rinehart, tough at first but compassionate on the inside

Rinehart's role in the Brotherhood allows him to show brute strength and compassion
20 Ras the Exhorter becomes Ras the ______.

Executioner

Heartbreaker

Terminator

Destroyer
21 The narrator writes_____ in lipstick on Sybil's stomach.

Last chance to escape the evils of society

HAHAHA You've been tricked by a member of the Brotherhood

I love you

Sybil, you were raped by Santa Claus Surprise
22 What ideology does NOT factor into the identity of the Brotherhood?

realism

nihilism

materialism

scientific rationalism
23 Who, in a drunken stupor, begins calling the narrator "Boo'ful"?

his grandfather

Emma

Sybil

Tod Clifton
24 What is the Americana Negro bank at Mary's house symbolic of?

Sybil's rape

the narrator's state

communism

the paradox of Rinehart
25 What symbolic significance does the burning of the documents in the narrator's briefcase represent?

the purging of the narrator's past bondage

the narrator's reentry to the visible world

none

the redemption of Clifton's spirit

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