Invisible Man Allusions Quiz

Question 1

The allusion to Huck Finn comes during the narrator's conversation with who?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Emerson's son

Question 2

The Battle Royal scene contains an allusion to which Greek mythological figure?

Accepted Answer

The Siren

Question 3

Barbee's sermon contains an allusion to the cyclops in which of the following Greek stories?

Accepted Answer

Homer's The Odyssey

Question 4

True or False? Author Ralph Ellison was actually part of the Brotherhood.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

The narrator refers to his college as which of these biblical settings

Accepted Answer

Garden of Eden

Question 6

Which of the following is not a biblical character that Invisible Man contains an allusion to?

Accepted Answer

Peter

Question 7

The narrator refers to himself as a "black-face comedian," which is a cultural allusion to...

Accepted Answer

minstrels

Question 8

The description of the narrator's college is an allusion to what?

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute

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