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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. Where might Crane have gotten information about the Civil War?
(a) His brother.
(b) Intensive scholarly research.
(c) His own experience.
(d) Manuscripts and letters.

2. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?
(a) His mother, a single parent, is a custodian in an apartment building there.
(b) There is no Negro neighborhood in Oklahoma City.
(c) Ellison's family has always been well to do and had nice houses.
(d) Ellison's father made a great deal of money in the railroad business.

3. What does Ralph Ellison's father hope that Ralph will grow up to be?
(a) Jazz musician.
(b) Poet.
(c) Police officer.
(d) College professor.

4. What is it that widens Ellison's world in a dramatic way?
(a) Living with a white family.
(b) Athletics.
(c) Reading.
(d) Traveling abroad.

5. For Ellison a primary difference between Twain and Hemingway is what?
(a) Twain was trained in writing and Hemingway was not.
(b) Twain was an abolitionist and Hemingway was a prohibitionists.
(c) Hemingway writes about his own personal myth and Twain writes about the national myth.
(d) Twain was creative and Hemingway factual.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ellison what does the term "the grays" mean?

2. Where is Richard Wright born?

3. What does Ellison say the "Negro problem" actually is?

4. Why does Ellison choose to analyze Mark Twain?

5. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?

(see the answer key)

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