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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. What does Wright do at age four?
(a) Makes a speech at church.
(b) Plays the piano.
(c) Begins to read.
(d) Sets the house on fire.

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

3. Where is the book review "Blues People" published and when?
(a) Saturday Review, 1945.
(b) Cleveland Times, 1974.
(c) Tukumpsee Reader, 1930.
(d) New York Review, 1964.

4. Jones contends "A slave cannot be a ______" (fill in word).
(a) Man.
(b) Musician.
(c) Communist.
(d) Intellectual.

5. Who interviews Ellison in "The Art of Fiction?"
(a) Gertrude Whittall and T. S. Eliot.
(b) John Jacob & Nancy Kerry.
(c) Alfred Chester & Vilma Howard.
(d) Donald Gibson and Bob Edwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Negro child taught to see the white man as?

2. What does the hero of "Invisible Man" do that is a common theme in Negro folklore?

3. What is Ellison reading when he begins writing "Invisible Man?"

4. In "Blues People" how are the blues categorized?

5. Does Ellison have "Invisible Man" completely thought out prior to writing it?

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