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

2. Does Ellison have "Invisible Man" completely thought out prior to writing it?
(a) Partly, he knew what the ending would be, but that was all.
(b) No, he just wrote as it came to him.
(c) Ellison refuses to discuss his writing method.
(d) Yes, the conceptual framework was in place.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellison read in 1935 that moves and intrigues him?

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

3. In "The Art of Fiction: An Interview" what does Ellison say at the very beginning?

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

5. What does Jones advise his audience to do?

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