"I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids- and i might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand simply because people refuse to see me"

When did the narrator realize that he was invisible to other people?

"He is invisible,aka, minority, a black man that nobody recognizes."

"The summer of 1945 in a barn in Waitsfield, Vermont, and with war's end it continued to preoccupy me in various parts of New York City, including its crowded subways: In a converted 141st Street stable, in a one room ground floor apartment on St. Nichola

"Learn it to the younguns."

What happened when the white men sent the colored men to fetch the gold on the rug?

When the narrator gets to the ballroom the white men ask him to participate in a box fight.

The briefcase he received from M.C at the end of chapter 1?

"i know that many of the old families still survive. And individuals too, the human stock goes on, even though it degenerates. But those cabins !"

What was inside the briefcase that was rewarded to the narrator in chapter 1?

When the Narrator gets the scholarship he feels his life will improve

I stumbled about like a baby or a drunken man.

"Im told that he is the smartest boy we got out there in Greenwood. Im told that he knows more big words than a pocket sized dictionary."

Who does the narrator quote in his speech to the white community leaders in chapter 1?

Mr . Norton only donates to college because he wants to have a good reputation

Narrators memory of being beaten up by the prizefighter

"What did i do to be so black and blue?"

Where does the narrator drive Mr. Norton in chapter two?

Being able to do some acts without being noticed/ or seen

"No, I m not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasm's."