Shadow and Act | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Part 1, The Seer and the Seen, Section 1

1. What does Ralph Ellison's father hope that Ralph will grow up to be?

2. Where does Ellison grow up?

3. How does Ellison describe his boyhood experience in Oklahoma?

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

5. What are the three themes of "Shadow and Act" according to the Introduction?

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

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

8. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?

9. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?

10. Why does...
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