Invisble+Man+Questions+P-2


 * Invisible Man Questions: Prologue to Chapter Two**

Name:…………………………………………. Period:……….. Date: ………….

1. What reasons does the protagonist give to the reader to support his claim of invisibility?

2. Where does the protagonist live? How does this serve as a form of protest?

3. Why does the protagonist love light? Why is his love of light symbolic?

4. Quote the advice the protagonist receives from his grandfather (page 16) and interpret the meaning of this advice.

5. Why is the protagonist invited, upon his graduation from high school, to give a speech to a gathering of leading whites?

6. How do the whites at this gathering manage to humiliate the protagonist and the other young black men who are invited? What does this signify?

7. The whites give him a gift of a brief case. Inside is a scholarship to the state college for Negroes. That night he has a dream that his grandfather tells him to read a document inside of the brief case that reads, “…Keep This Nigger-Boy Running.” What do you think the message means?

8. Describe the statue of the Founding Father. What do you think this signifies?

9.On Founder’s Day, the protagonist is given the responsibility of chauffeuring one of the school’s leading white founders, Mr. Norton, about. What explanation does this white man give for his interest in the Negro college?

10. What does Norton say regarding the Founder?

11. What is Jim Trueblood’s “crime”? How does the black community treat him after this crime? How does the white community treat him after this crime?

12. What does Norton give to Trueblood, and what does Norton tell Trueblood to do with this gift?