Ralph Ellison
Characters in the Novel
Plot
Becoming Invisible
Invisible Crimes
100
Ellison's grandparents were these back in the 1800s
What are slaves?
100
One of the old, rich, benefactors of the narrators college who insisted on hearing Trueblood's story of incest
Who is Dr. Norton?
100
This character is shot and killed by a police officer
Who is Clifton?
100
The first live "patient" the Invisible Man experimented on.
What is a cat?
100
The main character in The Invisible Man that steals his father's money to pay for his experiments.
Who is Griffin?
200
Where Ellison went to college
What is Tuskegee Institute?
200
The last potential employer to whom the narrator gives a letter. He reveals Dr. Bledsoe's cruel trick.
Who is Mr. Emerson?
200
This is where the narrator first gets a job in NYC
What is Liberty Paints?
200
The Invisible Man changes his college major from medicine to this.
What is physics?
200
The Invisible Man does this to his apartment building after he becomes invisible to keep anyone from suspecting anything.
What is burn it down?
300
Invisible Man was published in this year
What is 1952?
300
A black member of the Brotherhood who eventually sells Sambo dolls in the neighborhood.
Who is Tod Clifton?
300
This is where Lucius Brockway thought the narrator had been when, in fact, he'd only gone to grab his lunch.
What is a union meeting?
300
Because he has to commit his crimes naked, the Invisible Man always has this?
What is a cold?
300
The local homeless person who keeps all of the money Griffin stole as well as all of his research.
Who is Mr. Marvel?
400
This 20th century French philosophy heavily influenced Ellison's novel
What is existentialism?
400
A motherly black woman who steps into the narrator's life after he leaves the hospital
Who is Mary Rambo?
400
This "treatment" is used on the IM after his accident at the company where he worked.
What is electric shock therapy?
400
After the luggageman Fearenside sees a torn paint leg on the Invisible Man, he starts rumors that he is this.
What is a black man?
400
The only person in town who listens to Griffin and understands him yet betrays him. Griffin attempts revenge on him.
Who is Dr. Kemp?
500
Ellison was born here in 1914, once considered a frontier state
What is Oklahoma
500
A white woman who uses the narrator to act out a fantasy
Who is Sybil?
500
The Brotherhood is disturbed that the IM has arranged this for Clifton
What is a funeral?
500
When a floating chair in a guest room in the inn hits Mrs. Hall in the back, she and her husband believe they have this in the inn.
What is a spirit?
500
The first crime committed in Iping by The Invisible Man included the theft of two pounds ten in half sovereigns from the Buntings.
What is the burglary at the vicarage?
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