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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 Ellison believe Negro folklore does?
(a) Reveals the most intimate part of American history.
(b) Tells lies about the past.
(c) Makes white people comfortable.
(d) Keeps Negros down.

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

3. What does Jones advise his audience to do?
(a) Protest against the Vietnam war.
(b) Read his poetry outdoors.
(c) Approach his work, "Blues People" as a theoretical endeavor.
(d) Eat plenty of vegetables.

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

5. Which critics of "Black Boy" does Ellison want to respond to?
(a) Those who see the book as a miracle and its author a mystery.
(b) Those who believe Wright is self-involved.
(c) Those who believe Wright is a communist.
(d) Those who believe Wright is exaggerating the truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What three ways do Negroes in Wright's childhood survive?

3. What do the blues capture?

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

5. Who is LeRoi Jones?

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