Invisible Man

Beethoven's 5th, Louis Armstrong, catchy rhymes from the narrator's childhood ... what do you think the author, Ralph Ellison, studied in college?

• math

• music

• architecture

• creative writing

Ellison moved to New York City from Oklahoma in 1936. How many lights does the narrator have in the "hole" where he lives?

• 1936

• 1369

• 9631

• 6391

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The author, Ralph Ellison, is named after the transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82). Based on what you have read in Invisible Man, it could be said that transcendentalism believes that

• individuals are subject to fate

• individuals create their own reality

• individuals have no control over their destiny

• individuals are entirely puppets

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Invisible Man can be best described as

• a coming of age story of a black man's search for identity and visibility in white America

• a coming of age story of a black man's search for peaceful coexistence in white America

• a coming of age story of a black man's search for power by any means necessary

• a coming of age story of a black man's search for anonymity in white America

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Invisible Man was published in ___________, more than a decade before the Civil Rights Act.

• 1942

• 1952

• 1962

• 1972

The action of Invisible Man spans about __________ years.

• 5

• 10

• 20

• 30

The narrator's journey from South to the North traces the path of thousands of Southern blacks during the

• slave trade

• Great Migration

• trail of tears

• Revolutionary War

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Arguably the most prominent figure in the novel ....

• Brother Jack

• Tod Clifton

• Jim Trueblood

• the grandfather

• Mr. Norton

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Prologue - Why would the narrator be obsessed with light?

• to take as much as possible from the white power structure of Monopolated Light and Power

• to validate his existence

• to highlight his life

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Prologue - references to "bodiless heads ... in circus sideshows" in describing the reaction of people who encounter him creates a striking circus metaphor that Ellison uses to underscore

• the bizarre life and circumstances of the narrator

• the notion that whites refuse to see blacks as fully human

• the caricature-like portrayals of some of the black characters

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