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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Sound and the Mainstream, Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Jones place the beginnings of the blues?
(a) World War II.
(b) At the Negro's conscious appearance on the American scene.
(c) During the Civil Rights movement.
(d) In ancient times throughout Africa.

2. What does Jones analyze "bop" as?
(a) Conscious gesture of separation.
(b) Misguided anger towards society.
(c) Cultivated blues disguised as popular culture.
(d) Attempt to circumvent critics.

3. What is Ellison reading when he begins writing "Invisible Man?"
(a) "The Hero" by Lord Raglan.
(b) "Native Son" by Richard Wright.
(c) "The Problem of Leadership" by Rod Mitchell
(d) "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.

4. What does Ellison say slaves had in place of freedom?
(a) Blues, spirituals, jazz.
(b) Suffering, despair, darkness.
(c) Dementia, mental illness, emptiness.
(d) Early death, disease, drunkenness.

5. What does Ellison read in 1935 that moves and intrigues him?
(a) Voltaire's "Moliere."
(b) Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
(c) T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."
(d) R. Wright's "Black Boy."

Short Answer Questions

1. As a child what is Wright unable to distinguish between?

2. What is the first book Ellison ever reviews in a publication?

3. Who interviews Ellison in "The Art of Fiction?"

4. What does the phrase "to finger its jagged grain and to transcend it" refer to?

5. Who is Mrs. Lydia Maria Child?

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