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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, The Seer and the Seen, Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Violence is inflicted upon Wright by family, friends, and society as a whole. What is his response?
(a) Passivity.
(b) Retreat.
(c) Violence.
(d) Seclusion.

2. Why does Ellison's family live in a middle class white neighborhood in Oklahoma City?
(a) Ellison's family has always been well to do and had nice houses.
(b) His mother, a single parent, is a custodian in an apartment building there.
(c) Ellison's father made a great deal of money in the railroad business.
(d) There is no Negro neighborhood in Oklahoma City.

3. Why does Oklahoma hold some freedom and equality for Negroes at the time Ellison lived there?
(a) There are almost no Negroes in Oklahoma.
(b) Oklahoma is founded on Mormon principles which forbade prejudice.
(c) It is fully integrated and equality was legislated.
(d) It has no tradition of slavery.

4. Who is Henry Bowman Otto Davis?
(a) Author of "Radios and Communication, a guide."
(b) Father of Ellison's grade school nemesis, Horatio Davis.
(c) Editor of the first magazine which published Ellison.
(d) Little white boy known as Hoolie befriended by the young Ellison.

5. Where is the essay "Richard Wright's Blues" published and when?
(a) The New York Times, Fall 1955.
(b) The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Summer 1935.
(c) The Oklahoman Messenger, Winter 1919.
(d) The Antioch Review, Summer 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a child what do Ellison and his boyhood friends believe they are to do?

2. How does Ellison describe Wright's autobiography "Black Boy?"

3. Who is Stanley Edgar Hyman?

4. Who is Stanley Hyman's favorite archetypal figure?

5. According to Ellison what does the term "the grays" mean?

(see the answer key)

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