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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, The Seer and the Seen, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children are in Stephen Crane's birth family?
(a) 14.
(b) 20.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

2. What does Mark Twain do with the character of Jim that breaks through the black face minstrel tradition?
(a) Jim performs black face without the paint.
(b) Jim is stereotypical and boring.
(c) He's a complex, dignified and very human person.
(d) Jim's very serious and not at all fun.

3. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?
(a) Editor of the first magazine which published Ellison.
(b) Author of "Radios and Communication, a guide."
(c) Little white boy known as Hoolie befriended by the young Ellison.
(d) Father of Ellison's grade school nemesis, Horatio Davis.

4. What does Falkner understand about racial social code of the South?
(a) Here today, gone tomorrow.
(b) It will never change.
(c) It is fragile and illusionary.
(d) Destructive to both Negro and white parts of society.

5. Falkner writes exclusively of the southern experience yet Ellison believes him to be addressing what?
(a) Northern Negro experience.
(b) Effect of war upon culture.
(c) Inevitable rise and fall of every civilization.
(d) Nature of man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellison say good fiction is made of?

2. Why does Ellison consider Stephen Crane a great artist?

3. Where does Ellison say civil wars are fought?

4. Who is Stephen Crane?

5. How does Ellison start writing?

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