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

2. Why does "Invisible Man" take so long to complete?
(a) Not perfect enough.
(b) No ending.
(c) Too many versions of the book.
(d) The transitions the character goes through.

3. Who is Mrs. Lydia Maria Child?
(a) Teacher of jazz poetry.
(b) Primary benefactor of Tuskegee Institute.
(c) Patron of the LeRoi Restaurant.
(d) Leading member of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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

5. Where is Richard Wright born?
(a) On a Mississippi plantation.
(b) In a log cabin located in the heart of Nebraska.
(c) On a train as it traveled from Georgia to Maine.
(d) In the New York City Negro hospital

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the essay "Richard Wright's Blues" published and when?

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

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

5. What specific folk art form does "Black Boy" reflect?

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