Invisible Man Chapter 1

Why was the Invisible Man at the Battle Royal in the first place?

• To fight his darker brothers

• To answer his grandfather's dying wishes

• To read his graduation speech

• To touch the white woman

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What do the white men do to sexually humiliate the boxers?

• Make them sweat

• Betray their ancestry

• Put blindfolds on them

• Give them boxer shorts which are too small.

Why is the white woman considered to look like a baboons butt?

• Her makeup is too bright

• Her American flag tattoo is red, white and blue

• She is dappled with bruises from the men

• She is used as a reverse monkey image

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What was the grandfather's dying advice that haunts the IM?

• Teach your children the ways of our people

• Educate the children

• Do what id right by our family.

• "Yes 'em to death...Keep you head in the lion's mouth"

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What does veiling represent?

• Marriage only

• Taking someone's vision partially away from the truth

• Turning men into women

• Covering them up, so they can not see.

How do we see race on race hatred?

• "Let me take the fall for you."

• We were blindfolded

• If the cost of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

• "Gingered colored Negro"

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How is the clarinet an extended metaphor to the cigars? (Select 2 answers)

• They both show jazz

• Both are Black and in the mouths of white men.

• They show what the Harlem renaissance was like

• They both show the gray veiling of the air and discordant sound of jazz, where all notes are played at once.

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Who recommended the IM go to the Battle Royal to read his paper?

• His Mother

• The banker

• His grandfather

• The Superintendent

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Why were the black members of the Battle Royal sent up the service elevator?

• They smelled like sweat

• Jim Crow laws

• They were drunk and puking

• They were honored quests.

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Who was "wolfing down the buffet foods?' Notice the reverse animal imagery...

• The black boys

• The penguins

• The Kewpie doll

• Invisible Man

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