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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. Who is LeRoi Jones?
(a) Drummer, restaurant owner and chef.
(b) Jazz critic, author, poet and editor.
(c) Journalist, painter and fencing master.
(d) Trumpeter and composer.

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

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

4. Is Ellison interested primarily in injustice or art?
(a) Both equally.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Neither.
(d) Art.

5. What do the blues capture?
(a) The time period in which they were written.
(b) Religion of the Negro people.
(c) Tragic and comic sense of the human condition.
(d) Personality of the singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the book review "Blues People" published and when?

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

3. Violence is inflicted upon Wright by family, friends, and society as a whole. What is his response?

4. What is dangerous and different about Wright's attitude?

5. Who says Negro dock workers were the best singers of Irish songs?

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