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THE INVISIBLE

MAN

By H.G. Wells

THE INVISIBLE MAN

STUDY QUESTIONS

CHAPTER 1: The Strange Man’s Arrival

1. Describe the stranger who arrives in Bramblehurst railway station.
2. Where does the stranger go? What does he demand?
3. What are the strangers’ intentions at this point of his story?
4. What does Mrs. Hall assume has happened to the stranger? Why?
5. How does Mrs. Hall try to get to know the stranger? How does the stranger respond?
6. In what time period does the novel take place? How can you tell? CHAPTER 2: Mr. Teddy Henfrey’s First Impressions
7. Who is Teddy Henfrey? What does Mrs. Hall ask of him?
8. What does Teddy deliberately do? Why?
9. What does Teddy talk himself into regarding the stranger?
10. What does Teddy mean by saying to Mr. Hall, a “lot of luggage” will be coming?
11. How is Mr. Hall put off from investigating the stranger? CHAPTER 3: The Thousand and One Bottles
12. Describe the stranger’s luggage. What is unusual about its arrival?
13. What occurs between Fearenside’s dog and the stranger?
14. What does Mr. Hall get a glimpse of in the stranger’s room?
15. What does Mrs. Hall get a quick glimpse of? How does she describe what she sees?
16. Describe what Mrs. Hall hears during the afternoon.
17. What assumptions does Fearenside make in regards to the stranger? CHAPTER 4: Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger
18. How does the stranger quiet any disapprovals of Mrs. Hall?
19. Why has the stranger been foraging at night?
20. How does Mrs. Hall defend the town’s speculation in regard to the stranger?
21. Who does Mr. Gould imagine the stranger to be?
22. How do the young men begin to mock the stranger’s bearing?
23. Who is Cuss? What story does Cuss have to tell Bunting, the vicar? How much of the stranger does Mr. Cuss actually see?

CHAPTER 10: Mr. Marvel’s Visit to Iping

1. What is going on in the village on the afternoon of Whit-Monday?
2. How has the general population of Iping been able to reason away the Invisible Man?
3. What does Huxter notice about Mr. Marvel? What happens to Huxter? What does Huxter think has taken place? CHAPTER 11: In the Coach & Horses
4. Explain what happened inside the Coach & Horses as the narrator backtracks in his story.
5. What does the Invisible Man seem on the verge of? What would he be terrified of? CHAPTER 12: The Invisible Man Loses His Temper
6. What do Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey hear?
7. What happens to Huxter? What happens to Hall?
8. What does Mr. Cuss tell people? What fact does Cuss quickly catch on to?
9. What does the narrator say is “perhaps” the Invisible Man’s intentions?
10. What are the Invisible Man’s actions before disappearing from Iping?
11. What is learned at the end of this chapter about Iping and the Invisible Man? CHAPTER 13: Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation
12. Where has Mr. Marvel been propelled?
13. How would you describe the relationship between Marvel and the Invisible Man?
14. How does Marvel try to reason his way out of the situation? Why is he not successful? CHAPTER 14: At Port Stowe
15. Where is Marvel now seen resting? What does he have with him?
16. What has been reported in the newspaper?
17. What strange things does the mariner ponder in regard to the Invisible Man?
18. What does Marvel confide in the mariner? With what results?
19. What story does the mariner later hear?
20. What insight do we gain in regard to how the Invisible Man has been surviving to this point? What is the irony of this situation?

CHAPTER 15: The Man Who Was Running

1. Describe what Dr. Kemp spots as he is day-dreaming out his window. How does he react to what he witnesses? Why?
2. What impression do you have of Kemp?
3. What do people hear a short distance behind Marvel?
4. What cries are soon heard in the streets? CHAPTER 16: In the Jolly Cricketers
5. Describe the Jolly Cricketers and its barkeep.
6. What is meant by the phrase “conversed in American”?
7. What ensuing action soon takes place inside the Jolly Cricketers?
8. How does the chapter end?
9. What will the Invisible Man be forced to find? CHAPTER 17: Doctor Kemp’s Visitor
10. What does Doctor Kemp’s housekeeper say about the doorbell? Why?
11. How long has the doctor been working? What does he notice on the way from his work? What more does he discover?
12. Who introduces himself to Kemp? How does Kemp react? Why?
13. What emotions does the Invisible Man display toward Kemp?
14. How does Kemp help Griffin? What indication could this be bringing to Griffin?
15. What does Griffin promise to tell Kemp? CHAPTER 18: The Invisible Man Sleeps
16. What promise does Griffin exact from Kemp?
17. What does Kemp read in the newspaper? What does Kemp assign the more terrifying elements of the stories to?
18. What accounts are given in the ensuing day’s newspapers?
19. What does Kemp write? Why? What realization does Kemp come to? CHAPTER 19: Certain First Principles
20. Summarize Griffin’s explanation of his becoming invisible.
21. How did Griffin’s experimenting come to a halt? How did he solve this problem? With what results?
22. How does Griffin justify his own behavior?

CHAPTER 25: The Hunting of the Invisible Man

1. What does Dr. Kemp explain to the police? What words does Kemp use?
2. How do the police plan to discover Griffin? What is the significance of “powdered glass”?
3. What does Kemp mean when he says that the Invisible Man “has cut himself off from his kind”? CHAPTER 26: The Wicksteed Murder
4. Describe what is happening around the countryside of Burdock.
5. How could Griffin had used his time more wisely?
6. What results with one encounter with a middle-aged man?
7. What words are used to describe the Invisible Man as one who has crossed the boundary of a civilized man? CHAPTER 27: The Siege of Kemp’s House
8. What is Kemp told in a letter? What does Kemp decide to do?
9. What news does Adye bring Kemp?
10. How does Griffin make his presence known?
11. What does Griffin tell the police to do? Why?
12. How is Kemp able to escape? How do the police react?
13. What is ironic about the course that Kemp takes?
14. How does Kemp attempt to slow down the invisible, barefooted Griffin? CHAPTER 28: The Hunter Hunted
15. Why does Kemp stop running?
16. Why are the people able to easily hold Griffin down?
17. What do the town people witness? How do the people react?
18. What does someone call out for them to finally do? Why? EPILOGUE
19. What has become of Mr. Marvel? How?
20. What has happened to the books, according to Marvel? What is the actual fact?
21. What does the epilogue seem to imply the people have learned?
22. What conclusion seems to be made in regard to human nature?

The Invisible Man

Character Identification and Analysis

Character Identification and Analysis

The Invisible Man

(the Stranger, Griffin)

Dr. Kemp

Thomas Marvel

Mr. and Mrs. Hall

Mr. Cuss

Mr. Bunting

Sandy Wadgers

Mr. Shuckleforth

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Book Cover

Design and color an alternative book cover for the novel.

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Comic Book Page

Choose one chapter, section, or incident from the novel. Create a one-page comic book that describes what happened. Use vivid colors and words or quotes from the book. Be prepared to share.

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Vocabulary Study

Word Definition

Yokel

Extol

Nuance

Trysting

Plaintively

Clamber

Incantatory

Covey

Strident

Brogues

Gesticulate

Balustrade

Catharsis

Amorphous

Benign

Irrevocably

Articulate

Quaver

Impunity

Imperious

Doleful

Helical

Drone

Myopically

Torpid

Syphon

Palaver

Nebulous

Nonchalance

Lethargically

Verbiage

Impertinence

Synchronize

Caucus

Dialectics

Belligerent

Blighting

Volatile

Pomade

Spiel

Euphonium

Veer

Tenacious

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Literary Term Analysis

Term Definition Evidence

Allusion

A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature

Juxtaposition

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

Atmosphere

Feeling from the setting

Imagery Sensory language

Colloquialism

A word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing

Hyperbole

Exaggeration or overstatement

Idiom

An expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language

Irony

An implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant

Metaphor

The comparison of two unlike things

Simile

the comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Symbol

Using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

Theme

The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express

The Invisible Man

Packing Your Suitcase

When the stranger arrives in Iping, he hopes to find solace and work on his research. All that changes when his voluminous property arrives. Now the stranger is the talk of the town. Let’s backtrack to London and imagine that you are the Invisible Man and you have one suitcase to pack so that you may indeed maintain a low profile. What will you bring? Your books? Your laboratory equipment? What clothes will you pack? What will you leave behind?

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Thomas Marvel vs Invisible Man

Using the Venn diagram below, examine the character of Tomas Marvel by comparing and contrasting him to the Invisible Man.

Thomas Marvel

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