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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 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ellison describe Wright's autobiography "Black Boy?"
(a) The Negro answer to "Huckleberry Finn."
(b) A non-white intellectual's statement of his relationship with Western culture.
(c) An angry young man's immoderate tale of delusion.
(d) Another failed attempt to pierce the great wall between races.

2. For Ellison who is the greatest artist the south has ever produced?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) William Falkner.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Mark Twain.

3. Who is Irving Howe?
(a) Hispanic Indian man who met Ellison in a bar.
(b) Negro professor from Mississippi University.
(c) White liberal writer from New York City.
(d) Pseudonym for Richard Wright.

4. Where is Richard Wright born?
(a) On a train as it traveled from Georgia to Maine.
(b) In the New York City Negro hospital
(c) In a log cabin located in the heart of Nebraska.
(d) On a Mississippi plantation.

5. Why do Crane and his wife move to England?
(a) It was more civilized.
(b) He was wanted for several crimes.
(c) It was more exotic to Crane than New York.
(d) To escape rumors that she was an ex-madam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Stanley Hyman's favorite archetypal figure?

2. Who is Richard Wright to Ellison?

3. What does Ellison believe is the true "Negro experience?"

4. What does Ellison say the greatest difficulty for the Negro writer is?

5. What does Ellison praise about "Primer for White Folks?"

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