Themes
Characters
Symbols
Connections
Plot Synopsis
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What is the theme of this quote? “It was a newness too subtle to put into thought, but there it was. I was becoming someone else” (Ellison 335).
What is personal identity
100
Name one of the main characters in episode four, except invisible man.
What is Brother Jack, Brother Clifton, or Ras the Exhorter
100
What four symbols are found in episode four?
What is Sambo doll, toy bull terrier, the color red, light vs. dark
100
What major historical event is reflected in the book?
What is the Harlem Renaissance
100
What event begins episode four?
What is invisible man's first speech
200
What is the theme of this quote? “He looked at me as though he did not see me and I could not tell whether he was laughing at me or with me. I was sure only that he was laughing” (Ellison 359).
What is invisibility
200
What is Ras the Exhorter's opinion of the Brotherhood?
What is he is very against the Brotherhood
200
How are black Sambo dolls controlled in the book?
What is puppet strings
200
Name a current place/event that reflects police brutality shown in the book.
What is Ferguson
200
Who is the man that has a confrontation with invisible man?
What is Ras the Exhorter
300
What is the theme of this quote? "This was a new phase. I realized, a new beginning, and I would have to take that part of myself that looked on with remote eyes and keep it always at the distance of the campus, the hospital machine, the battle royal- all now far behind” (Ellison 335).
What is facing change rather than shrinking or fleeing from it
300
Who is the Brother that sold Sambo dolls?
What is Brother Clifton
300
What is the symbolic meaning of the color red?
What is the narrator's love/hate relationship with the Brotherhood and society
300
What political group can the Brotherhood be compared to?
What is communists
300
Who is the person that wrote a letter to invisible man?
What is the letter is anonymous
400
What is the theme of this quote? “I feel that here tonight, in this old arena, the new is being born and the vital old revived. In each of you, in me, in us all” (Ellison 346).
What is ending individual oppression
400
What is Ras the Exhorter's opinion on black integration with whites?
What is he thinks it is impossible
400
What represents how New York and society as a whole are like one big zoo?
What is the toy bull terrier and other animals
400
What movement can the Brotherhood be compared to today?
What is Black Lives Matter Movement
400
Who does Brother Westrum send invisible man to?
What is Brother Hambro
500
What is the theme of this quote? “There was no time for memory, for all its images were of times passed” (Ellison 390).
What is facing change rather than shrinking or fleeing from it
500
What is the Brotherhood's purpose?
What is to fight for social reform
500
What is the symbolic value of the recurring symbol of light vs. dark?
What is the narrator's growing understanding that society needs to come to terms with the truth
500
What does both the Brotherhood and the Black Lives Matter Movement fight for?
What is equality
500
What is Brother Clifton arrested for?
What is soliciting
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