Character
Plot
Theme, Motifs & Symbols
ETC.
100

One of the old, rich, benefactors of the narrators college who insisted on hearing Trueblood's story of incest

Mr. Norton

100

Where does the narrator first get a job at NYC?

Liberty Paints

100

The narrator's boxing match in Chapter 1

Blindness

100

What word best describes the narrator before he joins the Brotherhood?

Naive

200

The last potential employer to whom the narrator gives a letter. He reveals Dr. Bledsoe's cruel trick.

Mr. Emerson

200

Where did Lucius Brockway think the narrator had been when, in fact, he'd only gone to grab his lunch?

Union Meeting

200

What does the Chthonian represent?

The Brotherhood's Ugly Reality

200

Which historical figure did the narrator most resemble before joining the Brotherhood?

Booker T. Washington

300

A black member of the Brotherhood who the narrator views as an attractive and intelligent man who excels as a Harlem community organizer

Tod Clifton

300

Which treatment does the narrator receive after his accident at the company where he worked?

Electric shock therapy

300

In the context of the story, what does the racist coin bank represent?

The baggage of slavery

300

In his first speech for the Brotherhood, the narrator tells the audience that they have each been robbed of ___

An eye

400

A motherly black woman who steps into the narrator's life after he leaves the hospital

Mary Rambo

400

Where does the narrator deliver his first speech for the Brotherhood?

A boxing-ring

400

What musical genre does Ellison use to represent the unbound richness of life?

Jazz (or blues)

400

The narrator's invisibility represents a rebellion against ___

Societal roles

500

A black member of the Brotherhood who gifts the narrator his leg chain

Brother Tarp

500

According to the narrator, what is the doing underground?

Writing his story

500

In the novel, racism represents an obstacle to the narrator's ___

Sense of identity

500

Invisible Man was heavily influenced by the work of 'this' group of twentieth-century French writers

The Existentialists

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